calicos

Her recent graduation from a skinny piccaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a long calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.

Look at the threads in the calico.

Turkey red is perfectly plain in calicoes, she answered.

Stripes are worn more than anything else in calicoes, said she.

Now get a small bit of calico or muslin, and begin to fray out the edge.

Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malarial-looking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.

I went down in the elevator, and out on the street. I was completely sick of red calico.

Dunn, show this man red calicoes. Mr. Dunn took my sample and looked at it.

Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.

She handed a new and absolutely plain garment, of coarse and unbleached calico.

Have you any red calico like this? I asked the saleswoman.