calico vs chamois

calico

adj
  • Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated. 

noun
  • A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern. 

  • The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus. 

chamois

adj
  • Chamois-colored. 

verb
  • To clean with a chamois leather cloth. 

noun
  • A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra. 

  • A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle. 

  • An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather. 

  • The traditional colour of chamois leather. 

How often have the words calico and chamois occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )