cretonne

American  

[kri-ton, kree-ton] / krɪˈtɒn, ˈkri tɒn /

noun

1. a heavy cotton material in colorfully printed designs, used especially for drapery and slipcovers.

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cretonne British  

/ ˈkrɛtɒn, krɛˈtɒn /

noun

1. 1. a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing

   2. ( as modifier )

      cretonne chair covers

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Etymology

Origin of cretonne

1865–70; < French, after Creton, Norman village where it was produced

Example Sentences

The year she left, she began working as a textile designer and creating cretonne fabrics.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

She toted ten gallons of water to school each day, made new, child-sized furniture, decorated the windows with bright cretonne to make school look "homey."

From Time Magazine Archive

With some difficulty and no little expense he set aside one of the Parliamentary bathrooms, tastefully shrouded it in cretonne, appointed a respectable, middle-aged bathmistress.

From Time Magazine Archive

But inside the spacious mansion at Hyde Park there was warmth and gayety, perhaps in the flowered cretonne drawing-room�where afternoon coffee is a daily ritual.

From Time Magazine Archive

She redecorated the musty, coffer- ceilinged mansion with watercolor landscapes, reupholstered the sofas with rustic fabrics, and discarded the cretonne drapes in favor of sliding glass doors that invited the morning light.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García