noun
definition
A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
Examples of chintz in a Sentence
Flowered chintz or soft chenille looks great as slipcovers and throw pillows.
Light weight or see-through fabrics like chambray or chintz, make for beautiful window swags or sheer curtains.
I've always adored how the small lights of the antique crystal chandelier illume the rich, peach chintz.
The Shaker style beds are new for 2005 and the cottage has enough chintz and curios in keeping with the history of the site.
Ensuites have free-standing Jacuzzi baths, DVDs and brown slate floors - no chintz or battle-ax landladies in sight.
Breathe new life into old armchairs that you can pick up for a song, by covering them with chintz, chenille, or soft cotton.
You can order a bed skirt or dust ruffle that is made out of lace, eyelet, sateen, chintz, satin, cotton, denim, or even upholstery fabric.
It is supposed to be the Camanes of Ptolemy, and was formerly a very flourishing city, the seat of an extensive trade, and celebrated for its manufactures of silk, chintz and gold stuffs; but owing principally to the gradually increasing difficulty of access by water, owing to the silting up of the gulf, its commerce has long since fallen away, and the town has become poor and dilapidated.
Over the shirt and zir-jamah comes the arkhalik, generally of quilted chintz or print, a closely-fitting garment, collarless, with tight sleeves to the elbow, whence, to the wrist, are a number of little metal buttons, fastened in winter, but not in summer.
The rest of the costume is composed of the tumbun or shalvar, short skirts of great width, held by a running stringthe outer one being usually of silk, velvet, or Kashmir shawl, often trimmed with gold lace, or, among the poor, of loud-patterned chintz or print.
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.