chintz

See also: Chintz

English

Chintz

Etymology

From Hindi छींट (chī̃ṭ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪnts/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnts

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.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• chintzified
• chintzware
• chintzy

 

Translations

fabric

• Armenian: չիթ (hy) (čʻitʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印花棉布 (yìnhuā miánbù)

• Danish: chintz c
• Dutch: sits (nl)
• Estonian: sits
• Faroese: kins n
• French: chintz (fr) m
• German: Chintz (de) m
• Hindi: छींट (chī̃ṭ)
• Icelandic: sirs n
• Ingrian: sitsa
• Italian: chintz m
• Kazakh: шыт (şyt)
• Ottoman Turkish: چیت (çit)
• Portuguese: chita (pt) f
• Russian: чинц m (činc), си́тец (ru) m (sítec)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: cic (sh) m

• Spanish: chintz (es) m

References

• Chintz