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English
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Etymology
From Spanish calamaco, from Late Latin calamaucus (“skullcap”).
Pronunciation
Noun
calamanco (countable and uncountable, plural calamancos or calamancoes)
- 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———