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cretonne

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cre·tonne  (kr-tn, krtn)
n.
A heavy unglazed cotton, linen, or rayon fabric, colorfully printed and used for draperies and slipcovers.
[After Creton, a village of northwest France.]
cretonne [krɛˈtɒn ˈkrɛtɒn]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles)
a.  a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing
b.  (as modifier) cretonne chair covers
[from French, from Creton Norman village where it originated]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cretonne - an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
Translations
cretonne [kreˈtɒn] N → cretona f
cretonne
n → Cretonne f or m


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She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context
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.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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