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How to use cretonne in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cretonne? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The wall is tinted a warm gray shade, pink rugs are on the floor and a pink cretonne curtain hangs between the roomy clothes closet and bedroom.
A discarded packing case divided into several sections and covered with cretonne makes an ideal magazine file.
It was furnished like the maid's rooms and the bed here was of painted iron with a cretonne bedspread.
The outer cover has a top of floral and striped cretonne and a backing of faded pink cotton.
The closet was a shallow cavity with a wooden rod braced across, a faded cretonne curtain on a string closing it off from the rest of the room.
The New Yorker, August 6, 1927P. 9 One has a sliding glass panel covered with cretonne to protect neckers from being seen.
It has a particleboard base with a white lacquer finish and brown floral cretonne covers by textile artist Sven Fristedt.
The white sheets are made of cotton cretonne, a solid fabric that is woven in plain weave.
There are many designs of sets of small tables and chairs made with good lines, and the wicker ones with lovely cretonne cushions are very attractive.
The background is in fact divided up into subtly coloured bands, formed by the mirror, the dressing table and the floral cretonne cloth.
Although usually of cotton, cretonne may also be woven of linen, synthetic fibres, or combinations.
Bleached and glazed cretonne. Heavy quality.
The living room had the same massive lacquered wall unit and textured wallpaper, damaged now by the pencil scrawlings of tenants' children, the same double curtains of polyester lace and cretonne.
Examples from Classical Literature
All the bedrooms are called after flowers, to match the paper and cretonne.
But this morning the bundle of cretonne and cut-out birds and flowers was not to be seen!
Queen Louise was banished to the bedroom where she surveyed a world of cretonne.
Yes, his hands were behind him clutching and kneading a fold of the cretonne.
Make a valance of the same material, gathering the cretonne so as to form a heading at the top, and tack it around the box.
Why, we'd only a cellar, but they did sit on cretonne for their trying on.
A bodice and overdress of white cretonne flowered with red roses.
She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin.
Then she wouldn't use the English cretonne in the breakfast room?
Most likely one lined with cretonne, and a French chauffeur at the wheel.
It was really marvelous what could be done with cretonne and dotted swiss.
There were two or three basket armchairs padded in cretonne.
The shelf has a cretonne cover and 'petticoat' that reaches the floor.
What he considered necessary was to cover all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant flowers.
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