calico

• The Esquimaux lady would look ungainly and feel uncomfortable if she exchanged her moose furs for the wisp of calico which is patronised by the lady of Senegal; and in the like way the Englishwoman is manifestly ungainly and uncomfortable when she borrows the breeches of the Parisienne. —  With Zola in England
• The work is then fastened upon a round of cardboard lined with black glazed calico, and a Illustration: 186.--Pen-wiper in Embroidery small handle of carved ivory, or an ivory figure, is fixed in the centre. —  Beeton's Book of Needlework
• This helix was covered with calico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner. —  Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
• Her tunic was of scarlet calico, and she carried in her hand a straw hat with a red ribbon, to put on when she entered the church. —  White Shadows in the South Seas
• Though now it was clothed in nothing finer than a dark calico, and round her shoulders a little white worsted shawl was twisted. —  Nobody

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