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chints

chints is the obsolete form of chintz.

Meaning of chintz

Noun

chintz (countable and uncountable, plural chintzes)

  1. A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
    • The morning air waved to and fro the chintz curtains of a large and, for a London one, a very cheerful-looking room, whose windows opened to the Thames.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Chamber of Death”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263

Forms of chints

pluralchintses

Questions about chints

What is chints the obsolete form of?
Chints is the obsolete form of chintz.

Words near chints in the dictionary

  1. Chinta Valley
  2. Chinteni
  3. chinthe
  4. chinthes
  5. Chintin
  6. chints
  7. chintses
  8. chintz
  9. chintze
  10. chintzes
  11. chintzier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chints (page history and authors); chintz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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