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Calico

Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.

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Colored 84% connected

of Color

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Colored 84% connected

of Color

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Colorful 84% connected

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Colorful 84% connected

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Coloured 84% connected

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Coloured 84% connected

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Colourful 84% connected

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Colourful 84% connected

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Broader term 4

Cloth 76% connected

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

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Fabric 76% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Textile 76% connected

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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Motley 74% connected

Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

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Motley 74% connected

Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

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Synonym 6

Motley 92% connected

Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

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Multicolor 92% connected

Having many, or several, colors.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Painted 92% connected

of Paint

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Particolored 92% connected

Same as Party-colored.

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Piebald 92% connected

Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pied 92% connected

of Pi

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