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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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pl.

Chintzes

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[Hindi

chīnt

spotted cotton clooth,

chīntā spot

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.

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Chintz

chintz ‎(plural chintzes)

A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
  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.

fabric