in commerce; a kind of cloth made of cotton, chiefly in the East Indies. Some of them are painted with various flowers of different colours; others are not stained, but have a stripe of gold and silver quite through the piece, and at each end is fixed a tissue of gold, silver, and silk, intermixed with flowers. This manufacture is brought hither by the East-India company, and is re-exported by merchants to other parts of Europe. The general wear of stained or printed India calicoes in this nation having become a general grievance, and occasioning unpeaceable disputes upon our own manufactures, they were prohibited by stat. Geo. I. cap. vii.