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calico flower
noun
- a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of calico flower1
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
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The monumental blossom in O’Keeffe’s “White Calico Flower†of 1931 seems about to burst from its frame, while a wall of four of Hartley’s late landscapes, with their robust surfaces and poetic undercurrents, is one of the show’s high points.
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