My dictionary says "calico" can be an adjective, and gives "calico cat" as an example.
calico
n.,
pl. 3coes# or 3cos# 5after CALICUT, where it was first obtained6
1 orig., a cotton cloth from India
2 a) a printed cotton fabric b) [Brit.] a heavy, white cotton cloth
adj.
1 of calico
2 spotted like calico !a calico cat"

Dear sjm: What do you mean "up here" - you're way down there. I still remember vividly having it
explained to me at age four, by mother of the first girl I ever knew, that it did not make any sense
to talk about a top or bottom to the world. Which reminds me, I must now send an e-mail to that
girl, who lives three thousand mies away from me, in Florida. Over sixty years since I last saw her.