Dictionary Entry
calico
calico is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
- 2noun
Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4noun
coarse cloth with a bright print
- 5adjective
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
"a jester dressed in motley"
"the painted desert"
- 6adjective
made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
"calico dresses"
"a calico cat"
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