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cretonne a. a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing b. (as modifier): cretonne chair covers cretonne [krə′tän] (textiles) A heavy unglazed fabric that is usually printed, and resembles unglazed chintz. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. 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. Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawingroom in Ashley Gardens; the room blazed with fantastic colour, and I wondered if she knew that those varied hues, which fashion had imposed upon her, were due to the dreams of a poor painter in a South Sea island. |
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