Meaning of cretonne | Babel Free

Definitions

A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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."”

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