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Перевод: calico
[существительное] коленкор ; миткаль ; набивной ситец
Тезаурус:
- Hanns and another friend, Anne Sproat, made a costume for him out of dyed calico, on which Hanns painted huge chrysanthemums.
- Can your father get calico dyed that shade of red for us?
- Wheels spun, and spread, and crushed, and flattened, and the calico, bright with blue and pink flowers, rushed down the endless miles to dress the market place of the world
- 10 Taken from "Bed in Summer" (page 102), this is one way to enhance shuttered windows: white ticking (The Conran Shop) lined with crisp waxed calico (F R Street) is draped over an antique curtain pole (Antiques Things, stockists page 110); the maple pot cupboard is from Simon Pugh .
- The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters, and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress.
- A creature only ever seen on the magical Isle of Man, Jimmy Squarefoot has a formidable appearance, with the head and tusks of a large boar, the body of a man, and large square feet swathed in calico bands.
- They fought alongside Calico Jack Rackham, whose flag is our exhibition motif.
- Working on the calico toile, a rough version of the finished garment (3,4).
- The River Lea forming the eastern boundary of the metropolis provided good communication, ample supplies of water, and motive power for the mills, distilleries and calico industries that had settled in West Ham previously, and was to continue in that role.
- Cheap plain cotton or calico makes the ideal canvas for an ambitious, all-over stencil design, coloured to blend in with your decor.
- Higher and higher the shaking hand pushed the skirts until I saw that she was wearing a pair of white calico drawers, and remembering the black lace French knickers with their little rosebud trimmings, I understood.
- The white calico drawers would be standard wear, laundered all together, and I knew, having realized that none of the patients wore their dental plates, that there was no place here for black lace with rosebuds - nor if I brought them would they be long in her possession.
- "Calico is horrible to use but you have to make toiles to perfect your design.
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