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chintz
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synonyms: cretonne ???
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Definition:a cotton fabric with a floral design, originally stemming from India.(the fabric has a strange history in Europe w.r.t. trade wars to protect their own textile industries)
photo: By Jacket and shawl in chintz, skirt in glazed printed cotton, 1770-1800. Jacoba de Jonge Collection in MoMu - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, www.momu.be / Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25129699
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There was the long gallery, with its rows of respectable and (though, of course, one couldn't publicly admit it) rather boring Italian primitives, its Chinese sculptures, its unobtrusive, dateless furniture. There was the panelled drawing-room, where the huge chintz-covered arm-chairs stood, oases of comfort among the austere flesh-mortifying antiques.
Aldous Huxley. Crome Yellow (1921)
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I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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Ahead of the rest and nearer to him ran a dark-haired, remarkably slim, pretty girl in a yellow chintz dress, with a white handkerchief on her head from under which loose locks of hair escaped.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Carrie had called in a woman to make some chintz covers for our drawing-room chairs and sofa to prevent the sun fading the green rep of the furniture.
George and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody (1882)
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