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cretonnes

cretonnes is the plural of cretonne.

Meaning of cretonne

Noun

cretonne (countable and uncountable, plural cretonnes)

  1. 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

Questions about cretonnes

What is cretonnes the plural of?
Cretonnes is the plural of cretonne.

Words near cretonnes in the dictionary

  1. cretins
  2. Creto-
  3. creton
  4. cretonnade
  5. cretonne
  6. cretonnes
  7. cretons
  8. cretoxyrhinid
  9. cretoxyrhinids
  10. Cretzschmar's bunting
  11. Creuse

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