cretonne
nounEtymology
From French cretonne.
- borrowed from cretonne
Definitions
A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.
- Mrs. Strickland had moved with the times. Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawing-room in Ashley Gardens; […]
- 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 "Mama."
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cretonne. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA