Home made cotton cloths. Malynes, 1622, N.E.D.
1840. The compromise act is to be violated by its author, and his country girl is to give up her silks and go back to her cast-off calicoes and domestics.—Mr. Sevier of Arkansas, U.S. Senate, Feb. 20: Cong. Globe, p. 184, App.
1846. Worcester’s Dict. (N.E.D.)
