Adjective modifier

• white: His costume otherwise was simple enough, consisting merely of a small kilt of white calico.

• unbleached: Gym Bags Made from strong unbleached calico these gym bags make lovely and practical parting gifts for children who are going to school.

• strong: After some hours place the ball of amalgam in a piece of strong new calico and squeeze out any surplus mercury.

• old: And don't go about women in that old calico.

Modifies a noun

• printing: His father, Andrew, then 32, was a chemist with a calico printing company.

• printer: By the early 1820s the works seem to have become a calico printers, the mill being renamed Hodge Print Works in 1826.

• bag: Photo of a calico bag It is always better to first reduce the number of plastic bags you use.

• print: In 1828 he joined with two other young men to start a company selling calico prints in London.

• cloth: This may be a simple calico cloth banner with lettering large enough to be seen from the top of a passing bus.

Noun used with modifier

• cotton: Hand woven from soft colored and textured natural straw, they have lovely leather handles and practical cotton calico linings.

• printing: His business in Darwen eventually turned from printing calico to printing wallpaper, a tradition that has continued to the present day.