calamanco

English

Alternative forms

• calimanco

Etymology

From Spanish calamaco, from Late Latin calamaucus (“skullcap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæləˈmæŋkoʊ/

Noun

calamanco (countable and uncountable, plural calamancos or calamancoes)

1. A glossy woolen fabric with striped or checkered designs.
   • 1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

     What a fuss thou makest!—as if it concern'd the good people to be inform'd, That a man with pale face, and clad in black, had the honour to be driven into Paris at nine o'clock at night, by a postilion in a tawny yellow jerkin turned up with red calamanco———