English

Noun

calimanco ‎(plural calimancos)

1. Alternative form of calamanco
   • (Can we date this quote?), Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:

     I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust,--swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose,--it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp's draft.

   • 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:

     What should ail them, but a jacket and petticoat of good yard-wide stuff, or calimanco, might keep them decent and warm.