Definitions
A sturdy printed cotton fabric used for curtains and upholstery.
Word origin
From French cretonne.
Used in a sentence
“Mrs. Strickland had moved with the times. Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawing-room in Ashley Gardens; […]”
“She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Sturdy curtain cloth”8 letters
02“Curtain material”8 letters
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