How To Use chintz In A Sentence
- Cotton chintz is firm and the finishing treatment helps shed stains and soil.
- Another good option is the Santa Lucia, a beautifully restored 18 th-century palazzo which is spoiled only by the management's choice of chintzy decor and over-fussy floral curtains in the guest rooms.
- There is no floral chintz, no shelves packed with knick-knacks; there's no ornate wrought iron, no statuary, no bookshelves.
- Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
- But this year, why not chuck out the chintzy trailing lobelias, begonias, marigolds and petunias, and go for something a little more unusual?
- Plus his girlfriend moved here, so he tagged along to live in a chintzy duplex near the Jean-Talon Market.
- Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.
- I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- As the taste for chinoiserie flourished, textiles such as chintz, wallpapers, screens and cabinets freely incorporated Asian motifs both real and imagined.
- In America the term chintz includes cretonne and stamped linen. The Art of Interior Decoration