cretonne

English

Etymology

From French cretonne.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cretonne (countable and uncountable, plural cretonnes)

1. A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence:

     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; […]

   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Main Street:

     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."

Translations

strong cotton, linen or rayon fabric

• Finnish: kretonki (fi)
• French: cretonne (fr) f
• German: Cretonne (de) m or f
• Hungarian: karton (hu), kreton (hu)
• Polish: kreton (pl) m
• Russian: крето́н (ru) m (kretón)
• Spanish: cretona (es) f
• Swedish: kretong (sv) c

Further reading

• cretonne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps named after the village Créton in Normandy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁə.tɔn/

Noun

cretonne f (plural cretonnes)

1. cretonne (strong, heavy fabric of cotton)

Further reading

• “cretonne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.