Calamanco

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A glossy woolen fabric with a checked pattern on one side.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A glossy woolen fabric with striped or checkered designs.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A glossy woolen satin-twilled stuff, checkered or brocaded in the warp, so that the pattern showed on one side only. Also spelled callimanco, calimanco.
    • Word Usage
    "Then there is a quilted calamanco coat, and a pair of stockings I bought of the pedlar, and my straw-hat with blue strings; and a remnant of Scots cloth, which will make two shirts and two shifts, the same I have on, for my poor father and mother."
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