Brewer's: Chintz

means spotted. The cotton goods originally manufactured in the East. (Persian, chinz, spotted, stained; Hindu, chint, plur. chints; Sanscrit, chitra, variegated.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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