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English translation: figured cretonne curtains

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French term or phrase:	rideaux en cretonne à personnages
English translation:	figured cretonne curtains
Entered by:	Anca Ban

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10:06 Aug 26, 2011

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French term or phrase: rideaux en cretonne à personnages

Here is the context:

"Je songeais à des réveils semblables. Loin, bien loin du Pacifique, au matin d'une journée de chasse en quelque vieille métairie héréditaire. Je revoyais les rideaux de mes fenetres en cretonne à personnages, et il me semblait entendre retentir sous les grands corridors voutés les gros souliers ferrés des chasseurs heurtant les marches de pierre des escaliers. Des réminiscences lointaines passaient dans ma pensée en images confuses: des troupeaux de chevaux en galopade dans les grandes plaines, la silhouette d'un berger debout au bord de la route, près d'un feu qui s'éteint, et une noce villageoise qui s'en va, précédée de guzlas, vers l'église au clocher bulbeux."

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Anca Ban KudoZ activity Questions: 8 (none open) Answers: 0
Local time: 08:42

figured cretonne curtains

Explanation:
Figured cretonne is cretonne decorated with any kind of design, be it flowers, leaves, figures, scenes... It does not necessarily mean "figures" as such.

See for instance:

“a piece of attractive figured cretonne with birds, foliage or flowers”

http://consultingwoodworker.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs...

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Of course in your text it probably does mean "figures" because of the term "personnages" but the correct description would be "figured" in any case.

Selected response from:

Gilla Evans
Local time: 06:42

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figured cretonne curtains

Gilla Evans

Toile de Joay cretonne curtains

gallagy2

3 +1

Cretonne-Vorhänge

reorient

storied toile curtains

kashew

cretonne curtains adorned with (small) figures

Vlasta Jiranová

Summary of reference entries provided

figured cretonne curtains

kashew

Discussion entries: 3

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28 mins confidence:

cretonne curtains adorned with (small) figures

Explanation:
it might be a bit too explicative...

Vlasta Jiranová
Czech Republic
Local time: 07:42
Native speaker of:

Czech

33 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

figured cretonne curtains

Gilla Evans
Local time: 06:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 60

Grading comment

Thank you.

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Cretonne-Vorhänge

Explanation:
Cretonne scheint im Deutschen ebenfalls verwendet zu werden, siehe http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretonne.
À personnages meint wahrscheinlich, daß sie mit figuralen Motiven bedruckt sind, die wiederum den Betrachter zum Träumen anregen, ihn an eine Jagd denken lassen.
Vielleicht also "schwere bedruckte Baumwollvorhänge, auf denen sich Figuren tummelten"

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Really sorry, what I wanted to say is that the expression Cretonne seems to remain as it is, but one could translate it as heavy cotton curtain maybe. "a personnages" means that it is adorned with figural motives which make the observer dream and think about hunting scenes. One could render it as "heavy, printed cotton curtains bustling with small figures"

Example sentence(s):

Ce travail consiste à découper dans des tissus de cretonne imprimée les motifs les plus variés : branches fleuries, oiseaux, feuillages, fleurettes, voire des personnages ;

Reference: http://perso.numericable.fr/cf40/articles/4041/4041050B.htm

reorient
Local time: 08:42
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 8

1 hr confidence:

Toile de Joay cretonne curtains

Explanation:
or simply
figure-patterned cretonne curtains

I think we use chintz much more often than cretonne in English, they are similar except that the former is glazed with cretonne being coarser. Anyway, the type printed with figures is usually known as Toile de Joay

www.answers.com › Library › Literature & Language - Cached
Especially noted was toile de Jouy, manufactured from 1700 to 1843 at Jouy, near Paris. ... Chintz is glazed calico cloth printed with flowers and other patterns in different colours. Unglazed calico is called "cretonne". .... Figured woven ...
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www.innovateus.net/innopedia/what-chintz-fabric - Cached
Unglazed chintz is known as 'Cretonne'. ... Chintz is covered in bright, colorful figures, large flower designs, birds and ... Modern chintz usually consists of bright patterns printed on a light ... A famous Chintz make was "toile de Jouy" which was manufactured in Jouy, ... Curtains,; slipcovers,; dresses,; sarees,; sportswear. ...

p129
books.google.ie/books?isbn=0471289469...Karla J. Nielson - 1989 - Architecture - 456 pages
Also shown in figure C- 12 is a Rococo fireplace, scaled down but very similar ... Toile de Jouy scenes included "men and maids at play," chateaux, ... Printed fabrics were polished cotton, chintz, coarser cretonne, or Oxford cloth or poplin. ... of treatments were popular during this period— shutters and curtains. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toile - Cached
Toile de Jouy, sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a usually white or off-white background on which a repeated ...

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try links again

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toile - Cached

books.google.ie/books?isbn=0471289469

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sorry not pasting, try others

encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Chintz - Cached
Information about Chintz in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop ... Reproductions of Indian designs and also original patterns were soon produced. Especially noted was toile de Jouy, manufactured from 1700 to 1843 at Jouy, near Paris. ... A glazed cotton fabric often printed with figures, birds, and florals. ...

www.stitchnsave.com/Chintz.asp - Cached
Chintz also comes semi-glazed, or unglazed, in which case it is called 'cretonne." ... Chintz is covered in bright, colorful figures, large flower designs, birds and other ... Modern chintz usually consists of bright patterns printed on a light background. ... A well known Chintz make was "toile de Jouy" which was manufactured in ...

www.websters-online-dictionary.org/Ch/Chintz.html
Industry, Glazed cotton fabric often printed with gay figures and large flower designs. ... A well-known make was toile de Jouy, which was manufactured in Jouy, France ... Chintz is also pottery covered with a dense, all-over pattern of flowers or, less often, other objects. ... 2, 6.0193, chintz, cretonne, chintzy, seersucker ...

Full text of "How To Make Curtains And Draperies"

www.archive.org/.../howtomakecurtain005908mbp/... - Cached
Limitless pos- sibilities emerge as to pattern or fabric and color, .... Provincial and Early American rooms use toile de Jouy fabrics in single .... Usually cretonne, which is the same material as unglazed chintz, ..... Figure on having 3 times the length of your finished raffle for a moderately full ruffle. ...

gallagy2
Ireland
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Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

4 hrs confidence:

storied toile curtains

Explanation:
http://www.amazon.com/Toile-Storied-Fabrics-America-Schiffer...
Toile or chintz are for me the best-known English words.

kashew
France
Local time: 07:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 28

Reference comments

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Reference: figured cretonne curtains

Reference information:
e.g in:
Where the side walls are plain or covered with a two-toned striped paper, ***figured cretonne curtains***, as shown in Plate XXXVIII, look well. These curtains are made with a valance about ten inches in depth. The side curtains hang straight, while the muslin or net curtains next the glass are caught back on either side.

kashew
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 28

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