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chintz en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /t͡ʃɪnts/
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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi छींट (chī̃ṭ).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:
   • He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, […] a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. He found some glasses which didn't look very clean and polished them on a chintz window curtain. 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
   • And Presently Melisande withdrew. Her mistress, in a white peignoir tied with a blue sash, lay in a great chintz chair, gazing out of the bay-window. The quadrangle below was very beautiful, with its walls of rugged grey, its cloisters, its grass carpet. 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:

Forms

Deriveds

chintzy · chintzware · chintzified

Translations (22)

ar شِينْتْز (fabric) · ota چیت (fabric) · et sits (fabric) · hy չիթ (fabric) · pt chita (fabric) · fo kins (fabric) · izh sitsa (fabric) · cmn 印花棉布 (fabric) · fr chintz (fabric) · is sirs (fabric) · nl sits (fabric) · ru си́тец (fabric) · fi sintsi (fabric) · da chintz (fabric) · sh cȉc (fabric) · es chintz (fabric) · it chintz (fabric) · ru чинц (fabric) · kk шыт (fabric) · de Chintz (fabric) · hi छींट (fabric) · sh ци̏ц (fabric)