calamanco

• The habit of a Dapper, when he is at home, is a light broad-cloth, with calamanco or red waistcoat and breeches; and it is remarkable that their wigs seldom hide the collar of their coats. —  Isaac Bickerstaff
• His morning-gowns, of calamanco or damask, were always very clean. —  Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
• One of them wore a fresh red-and-white calamanco gown. —  The Crossing
• The women, too, made a picture strange to our eyes, the matrons in jacket and petticoat, a Madras handkerchief flung about their shoulders, the girls in fresh cottonade or calamanco. —  The Crossing
• She was clad in a calamanco raiment, and was further adorned with a variety of gaudily colored trimmings, vastly suggestive of the tropical world of which she was an inhabitant. —  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

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