calamanco/ˌkæləˈmæŋkoʊ/EtymologyFrom Spanish calamaco, from Late Latin calamaucus (“skullcap”).calamanco means A glossy woolen fabric with striped or checkered designs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA glossy woolen fabric with striped or checkered designs.“What a fuss thou makest!—as if it concern'd the good people to be inform'd, That a man with pale face, and clad in black, had the honour to be driven into Paris at nine o'clock at night, by a postilion in a tawny yellow jerkin turned up with red calamanco———”