made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
Calico dresses. A calico cat.
source: WordNet 3.0
Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
source: Webster 1913
noun
coarse cloth with a bright print
source: WordNet 3.0
Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
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.
