calicoes

• Choice remnants of prints and calicoes were also shared with the neighbours. —  Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
• Use the glue for calicoes, and the gum for silks and muslins, both to be mixed with water, at discretion Beef's-Gall. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• Other calicoes are made by at least two processes which are comparatively modern in England, but certainly two thousand years old in Asia. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
• They were full of goods of every description,--calicoes, powder, shot, rum, tobacco, dollars, and wadâ yaser (a great quantity of cowries), &c 20] See the Appendix. —  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
• The two men next to me were hawkers; one carried a large pack of dimities and calicoes, and the other a box full of combs, needles, tapes, scissors, knives, and mock-gold trinkets. —  Japhet, in Search of a Father

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