Etymology tree
Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ)bor.
Portuguese Calicutbor.
English Calicut
English calico
From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).
Meanings
(not-comparable) Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.
The calico-patterned tablecloths were supposed to make the restaurant look rustic; instead, they made it look run down.
The calico cat had distinctive red and dark markings.
Sara, oh Sara / Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress 1976, Bob Dylan, “Sara”, in Desire:
(not-comparable) Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated. ▸ Having red, brunette, and blond hair colors, resembling the fur of a calico cat.
bg шарен (having a pattern of red and contrasting areas) · bg басмен (having a pattern of red and contrasting areas) · pl szylkretowy (having a pattern of red and contrasting areas) · bg пъстър (having a pattern of red and contrasting areas)
Etymology tree
Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ)bor.
Portuguese Calicutbor.
English Calicut
English calico
From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
Trussed in corsets, jawbone-high collars and calicos that had seen better days, they have little enough to work with, their attempts at coquetry further constrained by their rigid mores of the day. 2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
This helix was covered with calico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner. 1832, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 126:
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of calico cat.
One of them, a calico whose half-grown kittens he just fed, slow-blinks at him, an affectionate gesture. 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 111:
(uncountable) The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus.
it calicò (kind of cloth) · es calicó (kind of cloth) · gd cailleago (kind of cloth) · uk ка́ліко (cat) · mk американ (kind of cloth) · hi छींट (kind of cloth) · es gato calicó (cat) · ca calicó (kind of cloth) · vi mèo tam thể (cat) · bg басма (kind of cloth) · fi kaliko (kind of cloth) · af kaliko (kind of cloth) · arz شيت (kind of cloth) · ja カナキン (kind of cloth) · cmn 三色貓 /三色猫 (cat) · mi kariko (kind of cloth) · ko 삼색털 고양이 (cat) · af katoen (kind of cloth) · de Kaliko (kind of cloth) · cmn 三毛貓 /三毛猫 (cat) · pt gato tricolor (cat) · tt ситсы (kind of cloth) · uk кі́шки ка́ліко (cat) · fi kalikoo (kind of cloth) · sk kaliko (kind of cloth) · fr calico (cat) · uk си́тець (kind of cloth) · yi ציץ (kind of cloth) · nl calicot (kind of cloth) · pt calicó (kind of cloth) · ota قالیقوت (kind of cloth) · th สามสี (cat) · kjh ситсе (kind of cloth) · ota باصمه (kind of cloth) · sv kalikå (kind of cloth) · cmn 三花貓 /三花猫 (cat) · ro stambă (kind of cloth) · nl lapjeskat (cat) · pl kaliko (kind of cloth) · de Kattun (kind of cloth) · kum чыт (kind of cloth) · bg хасе (kind of cloth) · ky чыт (kind of cloth) · uk кі́шка ка́ліко (cat) · ru бязь (kind of cloth) · nl calicokat (cat) · ro cit (kind of cloth) · ja 三毛 (cat) · alt сыйса (kind of cloth) · cs kaliko (kind of cloth) · sw kaniki (kind of cloth) · pl tricolor (cat) · pt calicô (kind of cloth) · fr tricolore (cat) · hi छीँट (kind of cloth) · th แมวสามสี (cat) · ru митка́ль (kind of cloth) · tt ситса (kind of cloth) · uk кіт ка́ліко (cat) · ru си́тец (kind of cloth) · ko 삼색 고양이 (cat) · fr calicot (kind of cloth) · nrf calicot (kind of cloth) · cmn 印花布貓 /印花布猫 (cat) · ru коленко́р (kind of cloth) · ja 三毛猫 (cat) · bg платно (kind of cloth) · fa متقال (kind of cloth) · tr kaliko (kind of cloth)