"calico" in the noun sense
1. calico
coarse cloth with a bright print
"calico" in the adjective sense
1. calico
made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
"calico dresses"
"a calico cat"
2. motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
"a jester dressed in motley"
"the painted desert"
"a particolored dress"
"a piebald horse"
"pied daisies"
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