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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 6, June 1841

Note 2 — THE CLOTHING OF THE ANCIENTS.

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It is generally believed that the word calico is derived from Calicut, a city on the coast of Malabar in Hindostan, whence the first patterns of this stuff came to Europe.

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