calico
英 ['k?l?k??]
美['k?l?ko]
- n. （美）印花棉布；（英）白棉布
- adj. 印花棉布的；有斑點的
詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?calicoes;
英文詞源
- calico
- calico: [16] Calico, a plain cotton cloth, was originally Calicut-cloth. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the main export of Calicut, now known as Kozhikode, a city and port on the southwest coast of India whose first European visitor was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (c. 1469–1524). In the 19th century Calicut was South India’s major port. (It has no connection with Calcutta.)
- calico (n.)
- 1530s, kalyko, corruption of Calicut (modern Kozhikode), seaport on Malabar coast of India, where Europeans first obtained it. In 16c. it was second only to Goa among Indian commercial ports for European trade. Extended to animal colorings suggestive of printed calicos in 1807, originally of horses.
雙語例句
- 1. The colonists bartered calico for Indian land.
- 殖民者以印花布交換印地安人的土地.
來自辭典例句
- 2. Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.
- 她那件褪色的印花布衣裳敞到腰部,青銅色胸脯完全裸露在外面.
來自飄（部分）
- 3. As Hetty concluded, she reverently unrolled a small English Bible from its envelope of coarse calico.
- 海蒂說完, 就莊重地從印花粗布套子里拿出一本小版本英語《圣經(jīng)》.
來自辭典例句
- 4. The company imported a lot of calico from a foreign country.
- 那家公司從國外進口了許多印花棉布.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. There are some color stains in this piece of calico.
- 這塊白棉布有些色斑.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)