chintz

• The chintz, although so darkly patterned, presented hardly any obstacle to sound. —  Through the Wall - Miss Silver - 1950 - Wentworth, Patricia
• It was all draped and furnished with chintz, and had divans as wide as beds. —  Renée Mauperin
• 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 armchairs a festive, rustic style that was extremely pretty Oh, how charming!" —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
• A Spanish title, too, dear, and means 'chintz'--a 'calico', if you please. —  Dorothy on a Ranch
• I sat down beside a very stout Hottentot girl, whose dress of showy chintz was as much a subject of interest to herself as of indifference to the congregation. —  Six Months at the Cape

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