Crossword clues for chintzes
chintzes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chintz \Chintz\, n.; pl. Chintzes. [Hindi ch[=i]nt spotted
cotton clooth, ch[=i]nt[=a] spot.]
Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a
number of different colors, and often glazed.
--Swift.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of chintz English)
Usage examples of "chintzes".
The chintzes were faded, and next to a wing chair an Oriental rug showed a large hole.
She suspected that if her father hadn't been in such a hurry to move them out of London he would have waited until something more modern came on the market, but as it was he had bought this pretty half timbered Cheshire farmhouse with its large gardens and its wonderful aspects over the surrounding countryside, and gradually over the years Hazel had put her stamp on it, had brought it to life with all her gentleness and artistic skill, so that people coming into it for the first time caught their breath in pleasure as they studied its colour-washed rooms with their faded chintzes and brocades, its air of homeliness and comfort, its gentle warning welcome to everyone who walked into it.
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.