Calicut, chief town on the Malabar coast, in the Madras Presidency of India, the first port at which Vasco da Gama landed in 1498, whence the cotton cloth first imported from the place got the name “calico.”
Population (circa 1900) given as 66,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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