Definition of "chintz"

chintz

/t͡ʃɪnts/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural chintzes
1. A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
  Quotations
  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.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Chamber of Death”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 263
  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.
  1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎