Chintz

Chintz – Noun

  • A printed cotton fabric, glazed orĀ unglazed, used especially forĀ 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.

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