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CHINTZ
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chintz mean?
• CHINTZ (noun)
The noun CHINTZ has 1 sense:
1. a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric
Familiarity information: CHINTZ used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chintz" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Context examples
On Christmas night, a dozen girls piled onto the bed which was the dress circle, and sat before the blue and yellow chintz curtains in a most flattering state of expectancy.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains, showing papered walls and a carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and stained plaster of Lowood, that my spirits rose at the view.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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