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

• "What's the row, Sam" inquired one gentleman in black calico sleeves.
  什么事吵吵闹闹的，萨姆？一位穿着黑色印花布袖套的绅士问道。
• A strapping girl of fifteen, in the customary sunbonnet and calico dress, asked me if I "used tobacco"& meaning did I chew it.
  一个十五岁的高个儿女孩，戴着普通的太阳帽，穿着印花布的连衣裙，问我“用不用烟草”&意思是我要不要嚼烟草。
• Charles Bernouin in1672 in Regensburg strapped a rocket to himself as well as calico wings.
  1672年查尔斯·贝尔努安在雷根斯堡把火箭炮和布质的翅膀绑在自己身尝试飞行。
• 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。
• Sally was selling pins and sugar and calico all day and every day.
  萨利一天到晚忙着卖别针，卖糖，卖印花布，每日不变。
• Design of those cylindrically shaped magazines is loosely based on American Calico designs.
  杂志的圆柱型的设计是基于美国的松散印花布设计。
• 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。
• There are some color stains in this piece of calico.
  这块白棉布有些色斑。
• Ma had calico for a dress, too;
  他给妈妈也带回一匹做裙子的印花棉布。
• There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too.
  还有两件脏旧不堪的花洋布衣服，还有一顶太阳帽和几件女人的内衣，都挂在墙上。