Definition of "calamanco" []

• A glossy woolen fabric with a checked pattern on one side. (noun)

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• "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."
• "One of them wore a fresh red-and-white calamanco gown."
• "The women, too, made a picture strange to our eyes, the matrons in jacket and petticoat, a Madras handkerchief flung about their shoulders, the girls in fresh cottonade or calamanco."