calico
coarse cloth with a bright print • Hypernyms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
1. made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned - calico dresses - a calico cat 2. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly - a jester dressed in motley - the painted desert - a particolored dress - a piebald horse - pied daisies • Syn: motley, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured • Similar to: colored, coloured, colorful • Derivationally related forms: motley (for: motley)
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