calimanco

English

Noun

calimanco (countable and uncountable, plural calimancos or calimancoes)

  1. Alternative form of calamanco
    • 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage
    • 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business‎:
      What should ail them, but a jacket and petticoat of good yard-wide stuff, or calimanco, might keep them decent and warm.
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