calico

英 [ˈkælɪkəʊ]

美 [ˈkælɪkoʊ]

n.  (本色白)厚棉布; 印花平布

复数：calicos　

BNC.23901 / COCA.23048

牛津词典

noun

• （本色白）厚棉布
  a type of heavy cotton cloth that is usually plain white
• 印花平布
  a type of rough cotton cloth that has a pattern printed on it

柯林斯词典

• 白棉布;白布
  Calicois plain white fabric made from cotton.

英英释义

noun

• coarse cloth with a bright print

adj

• having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
  1. a jester dressed in motley
  2. the painted desert
  3. a particolored dress
  4. a piebald horse
  5. pied daisies
  Synonym:motleymulticolormulti-colormulticolourmulti-colourmulticoloredmulti-coloredmulticolouredmulti-colouredpaintedparticoloredparticolouredpiebaldpiedvaricoloredvaricoloured
• made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
  1. calico dresses
  2. a calico cat

双语例句

• The girl who had so suddenly arrested the step of Hetty was dressed in a calico mantle.
  这位突然止住海蒂脚步的姑娘，上身穿着一件印花布的罩衫。
• There are some color stains in this piece of calico.
  这块白棉布有些色斑。
• I smile as I count seventeen hand-sewn calico hearts.
  当我数着被子上17朵手绣的印花布心形图案时，我笑了。
• This kind of Latin American printed calico is popular among customers.
  这种拉美风格的印花布很受顾客欢迎。
• In the waters of the Fiji Islands, an emperor shrimp and a commensal crab nearly vanish in the calico pattern of a large leopard sea cucumber.
  在斐济群岛的水域中，帝王虾和寄居蟹消失隐秘在大豹海参皮肤上豹纹中。
• Ma had calico for a dress, too;
  他给妈妈也带回一匹做裙子的印花棉布。
• USE: Suitable for cutting all kinds of kraft paper 、 tea paperboard 、 grass paperboard 、 calico and art paper.
  用途：适用于牛皮纸、茶板纸、草板纸、印花纸、和铜板纸的分切。
• Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.
  由印花布或白棉布做，或类似于印花布的图案。
• There was a small bed in there. On it were neatly folded quilts of silk and red printed calico.
  舱中有个小小床铺，床上有锦绸同红色印花洋布铺盖，折叠得整整齐齐。
• It can be seen that the characteristics'civilians of the blue calico is subsisted and developed with its soul.
  可见，蓝印花布的平民化特质是其生存和发展的灵魂。