noun cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
2. calico ·noun plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, ·etc.
3. calico ·adj 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.