calico是什么意思？

calico

英[ˈkælɪkəʊ] 美[ˈkælɪkoʊ]

• n. 印花布，白棉布；

复数：calicoes;

例句

• The company imported a lot of calico from a foreign country. 那家公司从国外进口了许多印花棉布.
• As Hetty concluded, she reverently unrolled a small English Bible from its envelope of coarse calico. 海蒂说完, 就庄重地从印花粗布套子里拿出一本小版本英语《圣经》.
• Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed. 她那件褪色的印花布衣裳敞到腰部,青铜色胸脯完全裸露在外面.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-MASS
  白棉布;白布
  Calico is plain white fabric made from cotton.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. coarse cloth with a bright print
• Adjective
  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"