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See also: Chintz
English
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Etymology
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[edit]- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪnts/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnts
Noun
[edit]chintz (countable and uncountable, plural chintzes)
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]fabric
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