Lexicographical Neighbors of Chints
Literary usage of Chints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"See quotation under CALCUTTA.] chints, CHINCH, s. A bug. This word is now quite
obsolete both in India and in England. It is a corruption of the Portuguese ..."
2. A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679 by Thomas Bowrey (1905)
"134, "The Road [of Achin] is seldom without 10 or 15 sail of Ships of several
Nations. These bring all sort of vendible Commodities, as Silks, chints, ..."
3. Country Correspondence, Public Dept by Madras (India : State) (1908)
"I must inform your honour etc., that the said chints were finish'd in an excellent
manner and that the Difference between the Worse which ..."
4. New Elements of Conversation, in English and French: A Work Composed Upon by G. H. Poppleton, Stéphanie Félicité Genlis (1825)
"The bed- steads of walnut-tree, the curtains of chints. ... What colour and
quality do you wish to have the chints of ? l'il look some out myself. ..."
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