cretonne

She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin.

What he considered necessary was to cover all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant flowers.

Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawingroom in Ashley Gardens; the room blazed with fantastic colour, and I wondered if she knew that those varied hues, which fashion had imposed upon her, were due to the dreams of a poor painter in a South Sea island.

Some were draping chintzes and cretonnes, and others, his neighbour told him were preparing country orders that had come in by post.

"Workers picking cotton must cover their heads with clean Cretonne (Soti) piece of cloth," he said.

In act three, scene one, the stage directions state that domestic alterations have been made to Philip's room: a vase with chrysanthemums, a bookcase, cretonne cover for the chair and curtains on the window, and a white spread for the bed have all been added to the space (Hemingway 59).

The girls made cheap colourful curtains out of thick cretonne material.

Two tenders for the supply of (a) different quality fabrics (gabardine, tergal and cretonne), also (b) sets of fire brigades' dresses.

They were housed behind a cretonne curtain patterned with yellow and black geometric shapes threaded onto curtain wire, which was pulled tight across the sink and fastened onto two cup hooks.

At the end of reperfusion, blood samples were collected from the heart chambers to measure the myocardial enzyme leakage including cretonne phosphokinase (CPK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH).

Despite her status as a native speaker of English with a PhD in English, Carol had to look up "truculent" (fierce) along with "cretonne" (glazed cotton), a word Fan used later in the story.