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Cretonne

noun

An unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies.

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... showed me the different rooms. Her boudoir was hung with embroidered satin. One room I liked particularly; the walls were covered with the coarsest kind of ecru linen, on which were sewed pink pigeons cut out of cretonne; even the ceiling had its pigeons flying away in the distance. Another room was entirely furnished in cashmere shawls—a present from the Shah himself. There must have been a great many, to have covered the walls and ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... pavilion in a shady spot under orange trees full of fruit and blossoms surrounded with a dense hedge of evergreens, vines and blossoms. There wuz walks in every direction bordered with lovely flowers. The Queen's private settin' room is a pretty room, the furniture covered with pink and white cretonne, no better than my lounge is covered with to home in the spare room. And in a little corner, hid by a screen of photographs wuz her books and writing desk. The maids of honor had rooms in a little vine covered ...

— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

Words linked to "Cretonne" : material, cloth, fabric, textile