chintz

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Chintz

Etymology[edit]

From Hindi छींट (chī̃ṭ).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪnts/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪnts

Noun[edit]

chintz (countable and uncountable, plural chintzes)

  1. A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Chamber of Death”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:
      The morning air waved to and fro the chintz curtains of a large and, for a London one, a very cheerful-looking room, whose windows opened to the Thames.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎[1]:
      He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, […] a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. He found some glasses which didn't look very clean and polished them on a chintz window curtain.

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