cretonne
cretonne noun: a strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.
Noun
cretonne (countable and uncountable, plural cretonnes)
- A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.
- 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; […]1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 58, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
- 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."1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XII, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC
Forms of cretonne
| plural | cretonnes |
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Origin of cretonne
From French cretonne.
Questions about cretonne
- What does cretonne mean?
- Cretonne means a strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.
- What part of speech is cretonne?
- Cretonne is a noun.
- What is the plural of cretonne?
- The plural of cretonne is cretonnes.
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