cretonne
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9.9
- noun
- /krəˈtɒn/
- Specialized
- He chose a floral cretonne to make slipcovers for the old sofa, giving it a fresh new look.
Examples
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Eveline, who wonders "where on earth all the dust came from" (D 37) (the answer is that it comes from the earth), never does find just how good the air is in Buenos Aires (D 39) and returns to her dusty cretonne and a plethora of negative air and heart imagery.
Academic text (1991) -
I can get a bright piece of cretonne.
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He would sit there in an old wicker armchair covered in faded cretonne, looking at the images.
Fiction book (1995) -
The closet was a shallow cavity with a wooden rod braced across, a faded cretonne curtain on a string closing it off from the rest of the room.
Fiction book (2000) -
She sewed colorful cushions from the bright cretonne fabric to decorate the living room.
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The window was dressed with a beautiful cretonne curtain that brightened up the whole room.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cretonne comes from French and probably from a place or family called Creton that made a strong 'cloth'. So cretonne now means a heavy, often brightly printed cotton fabric used for slipcovers and curtains.