"chince" meaning in English

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      "form": "chinces",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Roy T. Sawyer, America's Wetland: An Environmental and Cultural History, →ISBN, page 72:",
          "text": "I planted last spring 100 acres of ground in corn, it was in fine order and the season was good, but the chince bug (an enemy I never saw before) attacked it and instead of 1200 barrils I gathered but 600.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:",
          "text": "Drouth, chince–bugs, hail, everything! My garden all cut to pieces like sauerkraut.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Lynette Ater Tanner, Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations, →ISBN, page 179:",
          "text": "Dere wasn't a chince [bedbug] on a one of em. Better not see a chince on a bed.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of chinch"
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of chinch"
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "chintz"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1795, Joseph Hucks, A pedestrian tour through North Wales, letters, page 129:",
          "text": "Tis true we have sometimes been obliged to cook our own victuals, sometimes to be content with very scanty fare, and sometimes with none at all ; nor were we ever indulged with down beds, chince curtains, or Turkey carpets",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, James Dennistoun, Sir Archibald Steuart Denham, Margaret Steuart Calderwood, The Coltness Collections, page 140:",
          "text": "It is not a chince, I do assure you, it is an English cotton, which I value much more.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, Burlesques:",
          "text": "All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the pockits of their quiltid petticoats;",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of chintz"
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of chintz"
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  "word": "chince"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Roy T. Sawyer, America's Wetland: An Environmental and Cultural History, →ISBN, page 72:",
          "text": "I planted last spring 100 acres of ground in corn, it was in fine order and the season was good, but the chince bug (an enemy I never saw before) attacked it and instead of 1200 barrils I gathered but 600.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:",
          "text": "Drouth, chince–bugs, hail, everything! My garden all cut to pieces like sauerkraut.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Lynette Ater Tanner, Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations, →ISBN, page 179:",
          "text": "Dere wasn't a chince [bedbug] on a one of em. Better not see a chince on a bed.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chinch"
      ],
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of chinch"
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        {
          "ref": "1795, Joseph Hucks, A pedestrian tour through North Wales, letters, page 129:",
          "text": "Tis true we have sometimes been obliged to cook our own victuals, sometimes to be content with very scanty fare, and sometimes with none at all ; nor were we ever indulged with down beds, chince curtains, or Turkey carpets",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, James Dennistoun, Sir Archibald Steuart Denham, Margaret Steuart Calderwood, The Coltness Collections, page 140:",
          "text": "It is not a chince, I do assure you, it is an English cotton, which I value much more.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, Burlesques:",
          "text": "All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the pockits of their quiltid petticoats;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of chintz"
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        "(obsolete) Alternative form of chintz"
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