Callico ,Marseilles
quilting thicksett and black velvet. 15lbs 7 sh 5 p. (�15 7s 6d)
In 1798 he bought from Pomery 19 yards Genoa thickset,
2 pieces coat, 2 pieces gilt, 2 pieces stuff ,
2 pieces braite.(?) 3 gr metal brait (?) 1/4 lb silk.
A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.
6 (Cal3ecot), callicutt, 6-7 calecut, 6-8 calli-, calicut, 7 calicute, 7-8 callicot. . 6 kalyko, calyco, calocowe, (callaga, -ca), 6-8 callico(e, 7-8 calicoe, 7- calico. [In 16-17th c. also calicut, from the name of the Indian city (sense 1), called in Malay�lam Kolikodu, in Arabic Qaliqut, med.L. (Conti) Collicuthia, Pg. Qualecut (V. de Gama), Calecut (Camoens). It is not clear how the form calico, occurring in 1540 as kalyko, arose; it may have been merely an English corruption; the Fr. calicot has been suggested as the intermediate form, but the age of this is uncertain.]
1. The name of a city on the coast of Malabar; in the 16th c. the chief port, next to Goa, of intercourse between India and Europe; used attrib. in Calicut-cloth, Calico-cloth: see next.
2. a. orig. A general name for cotton cloth of all kinds imported from the East (see quot. 1753); `an Indian stuff made of cotton, sometimes stained with gay and beautiful colours' (J.); subsequently, also, various cotton fabrics of European manufacture (sometimes also with linen warp).
b. Now, in England, applied chiefly to plain white unprinted cotton cloth, bleached or unbleached (called in Scotland and U.S. cotton).
c. in U.S. to printed cotton cloth, coarser than muslin