How To Use cretonne In A Sentence
- In America the term chintz includes cretonne and stamped linen. The Art of Interior Decoration
- “Delight Higgins,” Slyly Silas said as he pushed aside the dusty yellow cretonne curtain that separated his business from his house and entered the office. City of Glory
- She sat now on a little stool that she had made for herself of empty tomato cans, covered with gaily flowered cretonne, and drawing back the muslin frilled curtains, looked wearily over the fields. The Second Chance
- The furniture was stained a light buff, and the upholstering was a delicate cretonne livened by exquisite tracings of wisteria. The Flaw in the Sapphire
- If variety in the color-scheme is desired, it may be introduced by means of cretonnes or silks used for hangings and furniture covers.
- Many people do not understand the use of chintzes and cretonnes, other than in bedrooms and summer cottages.
- In the gloaming I watch the audience scramble in, middle-aged women with puffy legs wearing tiny dresses, and see-through black silk shirts over cretonne bosoms propped up on bony rolling lacy corsets.
- A discarded packing case divided into several sections and covered with cretonne makes an ideal magazine file.
- The hangings were of Rouen cretonne imitating old Normandy chintz, and the Louis XV. design — a shepherdess, in a medallion held in the beaks of a pair of doves — gave the walls, curtains, bed, and arm-chairs a festive, rustic style that was extremely pretty! Pierre And Jean
- It was there that I learned to make pattern designs and designs for cretonnes that were eventually sold all over the country.
