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Floral and botanical patterns are a recurring theme, from the chintz sofas to the colorful hollyhock wallpaper that greets visitors at a private elevator entrance.—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 The options are truly endless and range from chinoiserie to chintz to cheeky block prints.—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025 The British already had experience mass-producing cotton calico with prints such as chintz, and Dutch potters in Delft had long mastered the art of copying Chinese blue-and-white ceramics.—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025 The report goes on to say, The music lovers began to gather at 7:30 p.m. Since the drawing room was filled with chairs, Mary Sykes Cahan of the Metropolitan Museum and Henry J. Heinz 2d of the 57 Varieties took refuge among the chintzes in the sun room.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chintz
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Etymology
earlier chints, plural of chint, from Hindi chī̃ṭ & Urdu chīnṭ
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