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CHINTZ

Dictionary entry overview: What does chintz mean?

• CHINTZ (noun)
The noun CHINTZ has 1 sense:

1. a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

Familiarity information: CHINTZ used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHINTZ (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chintz" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

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