chintzy

Example Sentences

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Designer Anthony P. Browne moved from London and opened a shop in Georgetown to sell British glazed chintzes and bullion fringes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2017

“For Hedy is furnishing her new home, her real home, with simple pine furniture, chintzes, cottagey rugs.”

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 1, 2010

By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

He nodded approvingly at the room, which was simply furnished, soft in coloring, with English chintzes, a few pictures of trees and of water,—all out-of-door things,—and a fireplace that showed signs of constant use.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

No chintzes were so smartly calendered as hers, and on the walls were mezzotints of the ladies whom Sir Joshua had painted.

From The Explorer by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)