How to Use chintz in a Sentence

chintz

noun

• Chintz and leopard prints abound, along with shades of pink, green, and trench-coat tan.
  — Celia Barbour, ELLE Decor, 31 Aug. 2016
• Here, too, is a nice study of the scale of oversize chintz roses and tiebacks, right for the height of the windows.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2021
• Daybeds, oriental rugs, and chintz pillows lend themselves to long and lazy naps.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2018
• The songs got bigger and took on some of the chintz and drama of musical theatre, but the bones of her signature sound were still there.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2021
• And my English great-grandmother had a bedroom that was all lilac floral chintz.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 19 Oct. 2018
• And has the design duo known for floral upholstery really grown sick of all things chintz?
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2017
• After all, what is too much chintz to one person is comfortable and cozy to another.
  — Jacoba Urist, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• The new, and newly renovated, hotels that have opened their doors over the past year are less chintz and more chic, with varying degrees of success.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The apartment seems to have countless patterns throughout, but really, there are only three: ikat, chintz and suzani.
  — Alexandra Abramian, House Beautiful, 17 Aug. 2016
• Use a floral chintz tablecloth, add pink Murano glasses and silk bows, then sprinkle pastel bonbons around the plate.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2019
• Thanks to the gentle, unforced way Mills directs his script, and Phoenix’s naturalistic acting, the movie never has the feel of Hollywood chintz.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Oct. 2021
• And the twigs can do it with an appeal that’s less Mario Buatta chintz and more Scandinavian farmhouse; more pencil line than lavish brushstroke.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
• So, mostly, is Junya Watanabe, who spliced oversized suit jackets to trenches to knits to parkas, most of it over chintz floral leggings or shirtdresses.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• The same fabric—a reproduction of an early-19th-century chintz by Quadrille—covers the walls and has been purposely reproduced in the painting by Christian White.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2021
• Zinnia Citron, singing out strongly, a little going a long smiling way as background in chintz upholstery and window blinds.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 23 July 2021
• Rothberg took Druckman's fiancée to Scalamandré, where a salesman who knew the decorator's tastes helped them quickly pick out curtains and French chintz for a sofa.
  — Tim McKeough, ELLE Decor, 4 Feb. 2011
• The highlight of the show is a spacious room toward the end containing a panoply of ikat coats, dyed with singular style and featuring ornate linings of Russian cotton and Indian chintz.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
• Expansive skirts on fashionable dress of the period proved the perfect blank canvas to showcase chintzes lush with pomegranates and lotus flowers à la Indiennes.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 June 2018
• In 2014, the pink hotel was redecorated and washed with even more color (think palm print halls, pink chintz curtains, and gingham tablecloths) by Dorothy Draper's protégé Carleton Varney.
  — Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2017
• After mid-century modernism’s long reign, some drama is making its way back into interior design—like with the resurgence of statement ceilings and chintz, or the return of colors like green and ochre.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 May 2018
• To help balance some of the home’s more traditional details, like chintz and antiques, Sikes was generous with natural materials.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 6 Oct. 2018
• Like a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an enormous chandelier constructed of lights and crystals hung above people drinking tea in the historic lobby, their heavy winter coats thrown over its chintz couches.
  — Lois Smith Brady, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2016
• His quest for fine English and Chinese export porcelain, fanciful floral chintz fabrics and quirky accessories became a lifelong passion.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• The saturated-blue dining room takes cues from early-20th-century decorator Dorothy Draper, who was known for splashy color combinations and cabbage-rose chintz.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• The vibe is establishment dinner party gone kooky: There are chintz tablecloths, patterned china and colorful, faceted glassware that, when arranged together, suggest a sunnier, more social time.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Guests check in at a reception desk decorated with Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler masks and rooms featuring chintz florals and wainscoting hand-painted with geometric designs.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
• All rooms, decorated with period fabrics like tapestries, lace, chintz, and damask, also come with wood-floor foyers stenciled by local craftsmen, bathrooms with Botticino marble, and free Wi-Fi.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Inspiration came from the iconic more-is-more interior decorator Dorothy Draper, who considered chintz a neutral.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 29 July 2018
• Schumacher chintz covers an chair; modern art by Richard Serra is hung above a vintage console table; a contemporary Beauvais rug is the connective tissue between all remaining details.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 12 Dec. 2019

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