CALICO

• (noun) coarse cloth with a bright print

• (adj.) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned

  "calico dresses", "a calico cat"

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : motley , multi-color , multi-colored , multi-colour , multi-coloured , multicolor , multicolored , multicolour , multicoloured , painted , particolored , particoloured , piebald , pied , varicolored , varicoloured

  Her pied dress caught my attention. -added by naila_inlas

  Pirates were usually dressed in motley clothes. -added by naila_inlas

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