If variety in the colour-scheme is desired, it may be introduced by means of cretonnes or silks used for hangings and furniture covers.
If colour is to play a conspicuous part, brightly figured silks and cretonnes being used for hangings and upholstery, the floor covering should be indefinite both as to colour and design.
These cretonnes wash most beautifully, and begin at 9d.
Liberty’s blue and white cretonnes are invaluable for this, but then it is rather difficult to [Illustration: FIG.
Miss Prudence had bought scores of yards of gay-colored cretonnes and other materials, and she now set all three to work making couch and pillow covers and draperies.
She begrudged the time spent inside shops buying cretonnes and draperies, as she felt she would never find him in such places.
As all my draperies and pretty cretonnes had been burnt up on the ill-fated ship, I had nothing but bare white shades at the windows, and the rooms looked desolate enough.
Then, too, I had anticipated the fitting up of our quarters with all the pretty cretonnes and other things I had brought from home.
Really, madam," said Mr. Greig, the obese chief of Cretonnes etc.
Mr. Greig, the obese chieftain of Cretonnes in the days of old Thompson's, is threatened with no real peril.
Cedar, yellow pine, and cretonnes or tapestries stretched on frames or light panels, take the place of the good solid oak and mahogany framing of the years gone by.
The fittings throughout are of polished yellow pine and mahogany, with tapestries and cretonnes above the polished wood dado, the effect being extremely bright, cosy, and unostentatious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cretonnes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
