Definition of chintz
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: a printed calico from India
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: a usually glazed printed cotton fabric
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The highlight of the show is a spacious room toward the end containing a panoply of ikat coats, dyed with singular style and featuring ornate linings of Russian cotton and Indian chintz.
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So, mostly, is Junya Watanabe, who spliced oversized suit jackets to trenches to knits to parkas, most of it over chintz floral leggings or shirtdresses.
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In 2014, the pink hotel was redecorated and washed with even more color (think palm print halls, pink chintz curtains, and gingham tablecloths) by Dorothy Draper's protégé Carleton Varney.
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Think slipcovers, faded chintz, Oriental rugs, or sea grass on polished hardwood floors—the comfortable English country house look as translated by Nancy Lancaster, who, after all, was born in Virginia.
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All rooms, decorated with period fabrics like tapestries, lace, chintz, and damask, also come with wood-floor foyers stenciled by local craftsmen, bathrooms with Botticino marble, and free Wi-Fi.
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After all, what is too much chintz to one person is comfortable and cozy to another.
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And has the design duo known for floral upholstery really grown sick of all things chintz?
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Like a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an enormous chandelier constructed of lights and crystals hung above people drinking tea in the historic lobby, their heavy winter coats thrown over its chintz couches.
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Origin and Etymology of chintz
earlier chints, plural of chint, from Hindi chī̃ṭ & Urdu chīnṭ
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First Known Use: 1614
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of chintz for English Language Learners
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: a shiny cotton fabric with a flowery pattern printed on it
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