Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of impressing designs in color upon cloth.
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Examples
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According to Henry Maudsley, the gloomy genius of late Victorian psychiatry, lunatics and criminals are as much manufactured articles as are steam-engines and calico-printing machines.12 They were not accidental or anomalous, and science could discover why they came about.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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According to Henry Maudsley, the gloomy genius of late Victorian psychiatry, lunatics and criminals are as much manufactured articles as are steam-engines and calico-printing machines.12 They were not accidental or anomalous, and science could discover why they came about.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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According to Henry Maudsley, the gloomy genius of late Victorian psychiatry, lunatics and criminals are as much manufactured articles as are steam-engines and calico-printing machines.12 They were not accidental or anomalous, and science could discover why they came about.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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It is used to make premium-grade furniture, panelling, veneers, and interior and exterior joinery Secondary uses of the wood include; knife handles, musical instruments, calico-printing blocks, mathematical instruments, agricultural implements, and boats keels and screws.
Chapter 22 1990
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On the rivers are cotton and flour mills, and dye and calico-printing works.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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(When it cropped up in isolated forms, as in Venice in the fifteenth century, it appears not to have exerted any influence; its introduction is perhaps rather to be attributed to calico-printing.)
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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Its action in such industries as calico-printing, where it has been used along with casein for fixing colouring matter; or in sugar-refining, where it is used for clarifying the sugar by precipitating the albuminous matter in solution in the saccharine liquor; or lastly, in purifying sewage, -- has been cited in support of this theory.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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The sides are hung with a gaudy chintz, which I consider a perfect marvel of calico-printing.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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The chief industries include bleaching, calico-printing, cotton-spinning, weaving, iron and brass founding, engineering and the manufacture of sanitary appliances.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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The first of them known to strike out an independent line was his grandfather, Robert Peel, who with his brother-in-law, Mr. Haworth, started the first firm for calico-printing in Lancashire about the year
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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