2. (adj)calico made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
3. (adj)motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
Definition of 'calico'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)calico made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color
2. (noun)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
3. (noun)calico cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern