chintz

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a printed cotton fabric, often glazed and decorated with brightly colored floral patterns

   Blue chintz curtains framed the bedroom windows.

Borrowed from Hindi chint, 'spotted or printed cloth,' from a word for a sprinkling or stain. European traders applied the name to vividly printed Indian cottons imported from the seventeenth century onward; English later used it especially for glazed floral furnishing fabric.

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