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A painted or stainedcalico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
1837, L E L, “The Chamber of Death”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides., volume III, London: Henry Colburn,, →OCLC, page 263:
The morning air waved to and fro the chintz curtains of a large and, for a London one, a very cheerful-looking room, whose windows opened to the Thames.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, […] a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. He found some glasses which didn't look very clean and polished them on a chintz window curtain.
