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  Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first
     imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
     1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives
        distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super
        calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
        [Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The importation of printed or stained colicoes
              appears to have been coeval with the establishment
              of the East India Company.            --Beck
                                                    (Draper's
                                                    Dict. ).
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
           the printed fabric.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     Calico bass (Zo["o]l.), an edible, fresh-water fish
        ({Pomoxys sparaides) of the rivers and lake of the
        Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.),
        allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated
        colors; -- called also calicoback, grass bass,
        strawberry bass, barfish, and bitterhead.
  
     Calico printing, the art or process of impressing the
        figured patterns on calico.
        [1913 Webster]

  Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first
     imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
     1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives
        distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super
        calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
        [Eng.]
  
              The importation of printed or stained colicoes
              appears to have been coeval with the establishment
              of the East India Company.            --Beck
                                                    (Draper's
                                                    Dict. ).
  
     2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
  
     Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
           the printed fabric.
  
     Calico bass (Zo["o]l.), an edible, fresh-water fish
        ({Pomoxys sparaides) of the rivers and lake of the
        Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.),
        allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated
        colors; -- called also calicoback, grass bass,
        strawberry bass, barfish, and bitterhead.
  
     Calico printing, the art or process of impressing the
        figured patterns on calico.

  calico printing /kˈalɪkˌəʊ pɹˈɪntɪŋ/
  Kattundruck 
   see: printing, map printing, machine printing, machining, positive printing, transfer printing, anastatic printing
  

  calico printing /kˈalɪkˌəʊ pɹˈɪntɪŋ/
  Kattundruck  [textil.]