Calicut

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Calicut [1]

Chief town on the Malabar coast, in the Madras Presidency of India, the first port at which Vasco da Gama landed in 1498, whence the cotton cloth first imported from the place got the name "calico."

References

  1. ↑ Calicut from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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