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Calico

2 stages from Malayalam to English.

Today it means a plain-woven, often printed cotton fabric
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Kozhikode
Malayalam · medieval
"the city of Calicut"
the name of the Indian port city also known as Calicut
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calico
English · 1500s-1600s
"a plain, printed cotton cloth"
named the plain cotton cloth first imported from that port
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