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chintz

 (chĭnts)
n.
A printed and glazed cotton fabric, usually of bright colors.
[Obsolete chints, pl. of chint, chintz, from Hindi chīṭ, chīṁṭ, splash, pattern painted on cloth, chintz.]
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chintz

(tʃɪnts)
n
1. (Textiles) a printed patterned cotton fabric, with glazed finish
2. (Textiles) a painted or stained Indian calico
[C17: from Hindi chīnt, from Sanskrit citra gaily-coloured]
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chintz

(tʃɪnts)

n.
1. a cotton fabric, usu. glazed and often printed in bright patterns, used for apparel, draperies, etc.
2. a painted calico from India.
[1605–15; earlier chints, pl. of chint < Gujarati chī̃ṭ]
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chintz

- Comes from the plural of Hindi chint, a printed Indian calico, from earlier Sanskrit chitra, "variegated."
See also related terms for variegated.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.chintz - a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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Translations

chintz

[tʃɪnts] N → cretona f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chintz

[ˈtʃɪnts]
n (= fabric) → chintz m
modif [covers, curtains] → de chintz
chintz curtains → rideaux mpl de chintzchin-up [ˈtʃɪnʌp] n
to do chin-ups → faire des tractions fpl à la barre fixe
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

chintz

n → Chintz m
attr curtains → Chintz-
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chintz

[tʃɪnts] n → chintz m inv
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Her flat was always neat and cheerful, gay with flowers, and the chintzes in the drawing-room, notwithstanding their severe design, were bright and pretty.
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I was the accomplished graduate of a dry goods store, where, by dint of ministering to the whims of fine ladies, and suiting silken hose to delicate limbs, and handling satins, ribbons, chintzes calicoes, tapes, gauze, and cambric needles, I grew up a very ladylike sort of a gentleman.
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Some were draping chintzes and cretonnes, and others, his neighbour told him were preparing country orders that had come in by post.
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He talked of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring's Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone's chintzes and crinolines.
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(10) Imported from India, England, and Europe, glazed cotton chintzes were expensive.
Lowcountry chintz: the Townsend/Pope quilt legacy
From 1838 to 1841 the earl ordered several colourful chintzes from Miles & Edwards, some of which were probably used at Wrest Park (Figs.
Cherubs and Chintz: among the triumphs of the 1830s restoration of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, was the sitting room of the Countess de Grey. Today, her remarkable interior scheme can be pieced together through scraps of evidence, revealing the tastes of the house's former owners

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