cretonnes

He glanced at the cretonnes and colored prints in her living-room, and gurgled,

Babbit 2004

There are linens of all prices, and cretonnes, both the inexpensive kind and the wonderful shadow ones; there are silks and velvets and velours, aurora cloth, cotton crêpe and arras cloth, and a thousand other beautiful stuffs that are cheap or medium-priced or expensive, whose names only the shopman knows, but which win our admiration from afar.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

If variety in the colour-scheme is desired, it may be introduced by means of cretonnes or silks used for hangings and furniture covers.

The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

Cavencliffe was a great, roomy country-house, in the Colonial style, furnished in chintz and cretonnes, light and airy, with wicker furniture and bird's-eye maple throughout, save in the dining-room, where there was the slenderest of old Hepplewhite.

In Her Own Right John Reed Scott

With cretonnes we made pillows, stuffed with prairie grass; hung bright curtains at the little windows, which opened by sliding back between strips of wood.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

If colour is to play a conspicuous part, brightly figured silks and cretonnes being used for hangings and upholstery, the floor covering should be indefinite both as to colour and design.

The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

Gay cretonnes hung at the windows, the shades of the several lamps about the room were of delicate silk; the rug was deep and soft.

Keeper of the Keys Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1932

In fact, I think we both were observing each other more closely than the cretonnes.

The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

It was furnished charmingly in cretonnes -- pink, with roses and trailing vines.

Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's Caroline E. Jacobs 1924

What comradeship they had had, they two, what theatre trips, what summer days in the car, what communion over the first baby's downy head, what conferences over the new papers and cretonnes for Home

The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923