cretonne
English
Etymology
From French cretonne.
Noun
cretonne (countable and uncountable, plural cretonnes)
- A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence:
- Mrs. Strickland had moved with the times. Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawing-room in Ashley Gardens; […]
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Main Street:
- She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."
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Translations
strong cotton, linen or rayon fabric
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Further reading
- cretonne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- nonerect
French
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps named after the village Créton in Normandy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁə.tɔn/
Noun
cretonne f (plural cretonnes)
- cretonne (strong, heavy fabric of cotton)
Further reading
- “cretonne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.