What is the meaning of calico?

Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.
- usage: "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
- usage: "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
- synonyms: motley, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured

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