In America the term chintz includes cretonne and stamped linen. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
The inside of the chair should be covered in flowered cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
A bodice and overdress of white cretonne flowered with red roses. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Nothing can be prettier, however, for a country house than cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
The curtains are reproductions of old designs in chintz and cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Square pillows of cretonne on a bamboo or wicker lounge are very pretty. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Twitter, a winsome dark-eyed brunette in a cretonne chemise frock, said. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
Madame Barillard, in a cretonne dress, opened it with a frightened face. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Bides His Time]
Swiss, while the window draperies were in pink-and-white French cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
She brings out from behind its cretonne camouflage a great bowl of candies. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
With a symbolic action she cast off the cretonne apron she had been wearing. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
Big pink roses splashed all over the cretonne counterpane and valance of the bed. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Once, the artist had tried draping her in the piece of cretonne which lay over the divan. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
All that she saw was the four-post bedstead canopied with cretonne, the face on the pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The dancers who carry the rose hoops should wear pale-pink cretonne flowered in deeper pink. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
She turned away from him, and going to the front window pulled the cretonne curtains closed. From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
Cheese cloth, bunting, Swiss muslin, cretonne, and Swiss curtains are used for window drapery. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Willow furniture with cretonne cushions makes a pleasant variety with mahogany in simple rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Mrs. King was shelling peas, and Sarah sat down in the cretonne-covered rocking chair next to her. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
Giles and Gwenda were shown into a large airy sitting-room with cretonne covers patterned with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Murder]
Johanna then pulled the cretonne curtains over the windows in the parlor and lighted the coal-oil lamps. From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
The monumental swivel chair had disappeared, and in its place was one of wicker, upholstered in cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
Make a bag of pretty cretonne, hang in the kitchen or cellar way, to keep the string and wrapping paper in. From Wordnik.com. [Things Mother Used to Make] Reference
Purvis sat on the little cretonne-covered box beside the empty fireplace, and looked with lack-lustre eyes into space. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The roughly built fireplace in the room was filled with logs, and a guitar always stood on a cretonne-covered box close by. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Her simple dress of black and gray stripes reached almost to her ankles, while an apron of fine cretonne came to her knees. From Wordnik.com. [Paula the Waldensian] Reference
By contrast, in one corner, there was a kind of divan, or rather a spring mattress, partly covered with a piece of cretonne. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
Ten years ago it was almost impossible to find a well-designed cretonne; the beautiful chintzes as we know them were unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
"Oh bother," grumbled Mollie, as after their breakfast she gloomily surveyed the landscape from the cretonne-curtained window. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
In England, slip-covers of chintz (glazed cretonne) appear, also, in formal rooms; but are removed when the owner is entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
She allowed herself to be led through the blue-painted door and into a small room full of bright cretonne-covered chairs and sofas. From Wordnik.com. [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]
The temporary nurse was sitting in a cretonne-covered armchair, with. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
Why, we'd only a cellar, but they did sit on cretonne for their trying on. From Wordnik.com. [Hobson's Choice] Reference
She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie, a Girl of the Streets] Reference
This, standing on end and draped with cretonne, made a fairly steady table for her lantern. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
She wanted to arrange her room and hang it with cretonne, something pretty, with a pattern of little blue flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5] Reference
A commode, one leg fractured, totally covered by square cretonne cutting, apple design, on which rested a lady's black straw hat. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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