She robbed the windows of their lawn and muslin curtains, replacing them with gaudy calico from the trade-store, and made herself several gowns.
There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too.
When, at a given point, all the maid-servants rise, whirl round in their calico gowns and turn their demure backs to me as they kneel in a row, I know not whether to laugh or cry.
A new vocabulary of chintzes and calicoes, taffetas, muslins, ginghams and cashmeres entered everyday use.
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At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.
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But the effects of scientific advancement will not be branded by the cheapening of silks, calicos and hardwares.
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The allegations were framed within a particularly gendered context, where luxury was equated with the feminine and calicos with a corruption of the social fabric.
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Between 1719 and 1720, the campaign againstcalicoreached its peak.
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For days at a time, women who worecalicogowns did so at their peril.
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Long after the riots ended and the ban was in place, women quietly took out their calicos, wearing them when they could, looking for equivalent substitutes as these became available.
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In this context, as the legal and political campaign againstcalicotook to the streets, women became the particular targets of polemical criticisms and physical attacks.
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Ehrlich conveniently compared the behavior of blood serum in the organism with the action of serum when used as a thickening agent incalicoprinting.
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In subsequent chapters, each is matched with the supply and consumption of key goods: respectively, silk and calicoes; spices and sugar; tea, coffee and sugar; coffee and tobacco; and tea.
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Sturdy wools fell out of favour, to the distress of moralists, who accused the consumers ofcalicoof economic treason.
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Pamphleteers opposed their supposed penchant forcalicowhich was assumed to have had a deleterious effect on certain branches of the textile industry, particularly the sale of woollens.
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Not one of them was allowed to marry before he had carried a load of ivory to the coast, and brought back one ofcalicoor brass wire.
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Those responsible came back and said that they would give it out in flannel andcalico.
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He is very learned incalico; he does not know much about corn.
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