calico printing

noun

: the process of making fast-color designs on cotton fabrics, especially calico

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Rhymes for calico printing

• fingerprinting
• glinting
• hinting
• minting
• splinting
• sprinting
• squinting
• tinting
• imprinting
• reprinting
• unstinting