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How to use calico in a sentence

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Peggy Sue, the elderly calico cat, jumped onto the monitor and cried for attention.
The group of 15 five to 11-year-olds tried their hands at making drawstring bags using unbleached calico.
Another good idea is to put masking tape on white calico in order to create striped curtains.
What once might have been a real cow's hide, was now calico, stretched and teased over the ribs and stitched into place.
More often these days you see people with calico or green bags lugging their shopping home.
Retailers also seek to provide alternatives to plastic shopping bags, such as calico or paper bags.
The frock was made of fine white calico wrought with blue and red thread in flowers and branch designs.
For a more permanent banner, use calico instead of paper, and stitch the letters from scraps of fabric.
Women wear one-piece calico or cotton dresses, or loose blouses and skirts.
Flannel continued in use until the 1870s, when a rough cotton calico replaced it.
The women liked to wear clothing fashioned from calico and other printed cloth, and silk ribbons became popular hair ornaments.
No calico cat should ever, EVER be permitted in the vicinity of the Business Unit.
A slender calico cat, battered by years of battling rats, gave birth to one litter after another, of which few kittens survived.
I watched the horse walk off, my eye staring at the pattern of colours that had always reminded more of a calico cat than anything else.
A calico kitten was right under her feet, and Sanura twisted her leg to step farther over the little cat.
Ann is 70 years old and lives alone, except for her long-time companion, an aging calico cat named Molly.
A little calico kitten, mottled with orange, brown, and white, had caught her eye.
Cyril reached down and stroked the calico cat's head with a work-roughened hand, and was rewarded with an even louder purr.
A block away from the statue, a calico cat casually crosses the street right in front of me, unperturbed by traffic.
Katarinka went over to the basket and stroked the calico cat curled up inside it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Did you ever have a calico apron or dress of percale or cambric on which the pattern showed on one side only?
She wore a calico apron and had not found time to do her hair since morning.
Their faces are veiled with something like the yashmak of Egypt, but it is of plain blue calico, a little embroidered.
She untied the bit of calico string with fingers that shook from excitement.
One bit of paper may then be lifted off the calico, and the thread will carry the other bit.
The factory girl has taken to silk stockings and fine lingerie and the lady to balbriggan and calico.
He turned away much shocked, and saw the calico cat watching him ironically from the chicken-house.
Looking wearily up he saw the great, green eyes of the calico cat fastened upon him in fierce distrust.
Let not the drum major, gaudy as a calico cat, and his melodious cohort, be forgotten.
Then a slow match was made by rubbing gunpowder on some long strips of calico.
It was completely empty except for a calico cat moving purposefully toward Manhattan.
A fine moisture shone on her bare neck and arms above her frock of sprigged chintz calico.
Nichols proved to be a one-and-a-half-story house with a glass door, a calico curtain, and a jingle bell.
Its exports were cotton, a kind of fine calico called bfts, bdellium, and flowers of the mahina tree.
It is also used to form a resist-paste in calico printing, and in the manufacture of cobalt blue.
Capt. George Corwin of Salem who died in 1684, had a calico counterpane in the Red Chamber in his house.
For oil painting place a thin calico or canvas on the backs, and colour with the tints you desire, mixed in oil and turps.
The Calicut of fame which gave rise to the name calico is also in this district.
It wore a gay pink calico dress, and its cheeks were stained red with pokeberry juice.
This dyestuff is largely used by calico printers and other dyeing manufacturers.
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