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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A yarn-dyed cotton fabric woven in stripes, checks, plaids, or solid colors.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cotton fabric woven of plain dyed yarns, in a single color or different colors, or of dyed and white yarns, combined in grays or other mixtures, checks, plaids, or stripes.
  2. Made or consisting of gingham.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a clothing fabric in a plaid weave

Etymologies

  1. Dutch ginggang, from Malay.

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