Cretonne

Word CRETONNE
Character 8
Hyphenation cre tonne
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Definitions and meanings of "Cretonne"

What do we mean by cretonne?

A heavy unglazed cotton, linen, or rayon fabric, colorfully printed and used for draperies and slipcovers. noun

A cotton cloth with various textures of surface, printed on one side with patterns, usually in colors, and used for curtains, covering furniture, etc. noun

A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax. noun

A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft. noun

A kind of chintz with a glossy surface. noun

A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery. noun

An unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies noun

A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.

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The word "cretonne" in example sentences

And see here, Pa, "stooping to pick up a piece of cretonne from the rubbish on the floor –" this has been a paper holder – there's beads sewed on it around the flowers; and do you see yon little shelf? ❋ Unknown (1910)

A mean window with a dingy cretonne curtain, a single bed still made-up with sheets and blankets but with the counterpane pulled taut over the single lumpy pillow; books lining two walls; a small bedside table with a shoddy lamp; a Bible; a cumber - some and gaudily decorated china ashtray bearing an advertisement for beer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The faded cretonne curtains faintly patterned with overblown roses and daffodils unseasonably intertwined were pulled back to show an inland view of the far Pur-beck hills. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Delight Higgins,” Slyly Silas said as he pushed aside the dusty yellow cretonne curtain that separated his business from his house and entered the office. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled “Papa” and ❋ Unknown (2004)

I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon print of the Coliseum, ❋ Unknown (2004)

She stored the bed in the attic; replaced it by a cot which, with a denim cover, made a couch by day; put in a dressing-table, a rocker transformed by a cretonne cover; had Miles ❋ Unknown (2004)

The hangings were of Rouen cretonne imitating old Normandy chintz, and the Louis XV. design — a shepherdess, in a medallion held in the beaks of a pair of doves — gave the walls, curtains, bed, and arm-chairs a festive, rustic style that was extremely pretty! ❋ Unknown (2003)

The rooms were hideously low-pitched, and, what was stupider than anything, the windows, the doors, the furniture, all were hung or draped with cretonne, good French cretonne, and decorated with festoons; but this made the room twice as dark and more than ever like the inside of a travelling-coach. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Everything in it was charming and inviting, from the wails hung in variegated cretonne and beautiful curtains, to the various porcelain, bronze, and crystal knickknacks arranged upon the tables and cabinets; the whole blending together into a subdued harmony and brightened by the rays of the May sun, which was streaming in through the wide-open windows. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What he considered necessary was to cover all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant flowers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She sat decoratively on the worn settee, her thin legs trying, I believed, to cover the patch of cretonne where the cat had sharpened its claws, where perhaps it always did: she looked a cat-lover, a quiet woman, half in hiding. ❋ Hall, Adam (1991)

The furniture was a pleasing mixture of cretonne -. covered chairs and several small tables, a Louis XV writing table under the one long and narrow window, and a bombe commode. ❋ Neels, Betty (1991)

It was nicely furnished with a couple of easy chairs in cretonne covers, matching curtains, a small table and two chairs, bookshelves on either side of a small gas fire, and a television in one corner. ❋ Neels, Betty (1987)

There was not an inch of cretonne or a dab of china anywhere. ❋ Laurie Lisle (1986)

Slowly the farmhouse windows were stripped of their cretonne curtains to let in more light, pictures disappeared from the walls, tables were swept clean of bric-a-brac, the rooms were lit by unshaded bluish white light bulbs, and most of the furniture—except for a few deep armchairs—disappeared. ❋ Laurie Lisle (1986)

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