Show origin of the word CI calico ico the word calico hae bar a peculiar origin many centuries since the fiert monarch of the province of malabar hin hill doltan gave to one of his hi chiefs chief as it a reward for services the land within the limits limit of which a cock crowing at a certain temple could be heard from this circumstance the little town which sprang upa up in the center of this territory was wa called Call cado or the crowing cock afterwards afterward it was wa called callcut calicut and from this place the first cotton goods were imported into england under the nime n ime of calico |