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chintz

  [chints]
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–noun
1. a printed cotton fabric, glazed or unglazed, used esp. for draperies.
2. a painted or stained calico from India.
Origin:
1605–15; earlier chints, pl. of chint < Gujarati chṭ
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chintz   (chĭnts)   
n.  A printed and glazed cotton fabric, usually of bright colors.

[Obsolete chints, pl. of chint, calico cloth, from Hindi cīṇṭ, from Sanskrit citra-, shiny, variegated.]
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chintz 
1719, pl. of chint (1614), from Hindi chint, from Skt. chitra-s "clear, bright." The plural became regarded as singular, and for unknown reason shifted -s to -z. Disparaging sense (chintzy) from the commonness of the fabric, is first recorded 1851.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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