Chintz – Noun
- A printed cotton fabric, glazed or unglazed, used especially for draperies.
Found in: “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it.”
This passage means that she wanted a different room, A much prettier one, with flowers on the windows with a curtain made of a fancy fabric.
