Calico

calico
    adj 1: made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned;
           "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
    2: 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"
       [syn: {motley}, {calico}, {multicolor}, {multi-color},
       {multicolour}, {multi-colour}, {multicolored}, {multi-
       colored}, {multicoloured}, {multi-coloured}, {painted},
       {particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {pied},
       {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
    n 1: coarse cloth with a bright print
    

Calico \Cal"i*co\, a.
   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. [Colloq. U. S.]
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Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. {Calicoes}. [So called because first
   imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
   1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives
      distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super
      calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
      [Eng.]
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            The importation of printed or stained colicoes
            appears to have been coeval with the establishment
            of the East India Company.            --Beck
                                                  (Draper's
                                                  Dict. ).
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   2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
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   Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
         the printed fabric.
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   {Calico bass} (Zool.), an edible, fresh-water fish ({Pomoxys
      sparaides}) of the rivers and lake of the Western United
      States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the
      sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; --
      called also {calicoback}, {grass bass}, {strawberry bass},
      {barfish}, and {bitterhead}.

   {Calico printing}, the art or process of impressing the
      figured patterns on calico.
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C+@
Calico

   <language> (Formerly "Calico").  An {object-oriented language}
   from {Bell Laboratories} which uniformly represents all data
   as pointers to self-described objects.  C+@ provides {multiple
   inheritance} with {delegation} and with control over which
   {methods} come from which delegated object; and {default
   methodologies}.  It has a simple {syntax} with emphasis on
   graphics.  It was originally used for prototyping of
   telecommunication services.

   The language is patented by AT&T and {Unir Tech} has the
   exclusive license from Bell Labs to distribute C+@.
   Unfortunately Unir is owned and operated by well-known
   anti-{IETF} ranter, Jim Fleming, which may have had something
   to do with the language's rapid disappearence from the radar
   screen.

   It runs under {SunOS} and compiles to {Vcode}.

   E-mail: Jim Vandendorpe <[email protected]>.

   ["A Dynamic C-Based Object-Oriented System for Unix", S.
   Engelstad et al, IEEE Software 8(3):73-85 (May 1991)].

   ["The C+@ Programming Language", J. Fleming, Dr Dobbs J, Oct
   1993, pp.24-32].

   [{Jargon File}]

   (2005-01-05)