Calico

(noun.) coarse cloth with a bright print.

(adj.) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; 'calico dresses'; 'a calico cat' .

杰里米整理

• Tiggin and Welps were in the printed calico and waistcoat piece line, gentlemen, so my uncle knew all the materials at once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He was habited in a coarse, striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons; drab breeches and leggings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There is all the new calico, that was bought last week, not touched yet. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• About this time, both in England and America, machines had been devised for sewing lengths of calico and other cloths together, previous to bleaching, dyeing or printing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Care-takers in calico lounged on the door-steps of the wealthy, and the Common looked like a pleasure-ground on the morrow of a Masonic picnic. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Calico printers are using half a pound of the acid to every 100 pounds of dressing starch, in order to entirely preclude the disagreeable odor arising after awhile from dry goods in store. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I reckon I know who'd ha' been sorry for to see our measter sitting so like a piece o' grey calico! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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