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Gingham
//ˈɡɪŋ.əm// noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks. uncountable
"And she found that she was not wearing a despised muslin frock! Her dress was gingham!—an adorable plaid with long sleeves, and a patch-pocket low down on the right side!"
- 2 a clothing fabric in a plaid weave wordnet
- 3 A dress made from that material. countable
""We have put on the pale blue silks that we wore at Isabella's wedding; that, however, was Georgiana's thought," continued Helen; "she said it would be impossible to go to church in our pink ginghams.""
- 4 An umbrella. UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
"[…] their ginghams stuck under their arms at right angles to their back-bones […]"
Etymology
From Malay genggang (“ajar; apart”), or a corruption of French Guingamp, the name of a town in Brittany, France, where this cloth may have been made.
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