noun. A heavy cotton fabric, typically with a floral pattern printed on one or both sides, used for upholstery. Example sentences. 1  It was furnished like the maid's rooms and the bed here was of painted iron with a cretonne bedspread.2  The outer cover has a top of floral and striped cretonne and a backing of faded pink cotton. It was furnished like the maid's rooms and the bed here was of painted iron with a cretonne bedspread. 2  The outer cover has a top of floral and striped cretonne and a backing of faded pink cotton. 3  But the cretonnes and tapestries of Merton are coarse and almost clumsy compared with these exquisite stuffs.
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âNVRâ simply stands for Non-Violent Resistance. In the mental health context, NVR is used to denote psychologist Haim Omerâs application of concepts borrowed from political non-violent resistance to the sphere of interpersonal caregiving, whether parental, foster, residential, medical, or educational.VR as method of struggle. NVR rests on the assumption that there is no way to get around chronic child violence or anxiety other than struggle. When children constantly erode the parental role, when they persistently contest the boundaries between their subsystems and the parentsâ, tenderness alone will not do.