How To Use Cretonne In A Sentence
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In America the term chintz includes cretonne and stamped linen.
The Art of Interior Decoration
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“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
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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
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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
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If variety in the color-scheme is desired, it may be introduced by means of cretonnes or silks used for hangings and furniture covers.
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Many people do not understand the use of chintzes and cretonnes, other than in bedrooms and summer cottages.
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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.
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A discarded packing case divided into several sections and covered with cretonne makes an ideal magazine file.
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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
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It was there that I learned to make pattern designs and designs for cretonnes that were eventually sold all over the country.
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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
Main Street
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A mean window with a dingy cretonne curtain, a single bed still made-up with sheets and blankets but with the counterpane pulled taut over the single lumpy pillow; books lining two walls; a small bedside table with a shoddy lamp; a Bible; a cumber - some and gaudily decorated china ashtray bearing an advertisement for beer.
She Closed Her Eyes
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I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
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The outer cover has a top of floral and striped cretonne and a backing of faded pink cotton.
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It was furnished like the maid's rooms and the bed here was of painted iron with a cretonne bedspread.
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Both the English-style cretonnes and the eiderdowns are the hotel's own design.
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Cretonnes, chintzes, dimities, and silk in crazy work and South Kensington patterns are also used.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
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Curtains were made of cretonnes, silk and woolen, all matching the beautiful wallpaper.
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The wall is tinted a warm gray shade, pink rugs are on the floor and a pink cretonne curtain hangs between the roomy clothes closet and bedroom.
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The faded cretonne curtains faintly patterned with overblown roses and daffodils unseasonably intertwined were pulled back to show an inland view of the far Pur-beck hills.
She Closed Her Eyes
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About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon print of the Coliseum,
Main Street
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There are many designs of sets of small tables and chairs made with good lines, and the wicker ones with lovely cretonne cushions are very attractive.
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He had the same smile on his face that he used to have before the war when he stood behind his counter and sold cretonnes and percales.
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And see here, Pa, "stooping to pick up a piece of cretonne from the rubbish on the floor –" this has been a paper holder – there's beads sewed on it around the flowers; and do you see yon little shelf?
The Second Chance
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She stored the bed in the attic; replaced it by a cot which, with a denim cover, made a couch by day; put in a dressing-table, a rocker transformed by a cretonne cover; had Miles
Main Street
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All the fabrics took form at Mrs Aline's, a dressmaker; the nimble fingers of seven trainees changed laces, cadis, cretonnes and silks into blouses, waistcoats and gowns.
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But the cretonnes and tapestries of Merton are coarse and almost clumsy compared with these exquisite stuffs.
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She asked Lily Yeats in London to source William Morris wallpapers and cretonnes for the bedrooms of the small daughters of Lord and Lady Stonehaven.
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It was hung with mirrors and cretonnes, it was richly carpeted, and, of course, it was lighted by electricity.
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Her hands began to twist the handles of the cretonne bag she carried.
MURDER MOVES IN
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I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
Languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.
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These fabrics are cretonnes, the end-of-the-19th Century's version of unglazed chintz.
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She carried a cretonne bag that turned out to contain a print apron and some down-at-heel black slippers.
MURDER MOVES IN
