gingham

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There were only a brown plaided gingham, a blue calico, and a thick white cambric to choose from.

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

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  • January 1792 It is made of a scrap of old-fashioned gingham, and, having been carefully preserved, it is in as perfect a condition as when it was first made a hundred and twenty years ago; and shows that the same hand which painted so exquisitely with the pen could work as delicately with the needle. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • It is made of a scrap of old-fashioned gingham, and, having been carefully preserved, it is in as perfect a condition as when it was first made a hundred and twenty years ago; and shows that the same hand which painted so exquisitely with the pen could work as delicately with the needle. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
  • When the bell rang she went in to dinner in her old pink gingham, her head high, her lips set, her eyes unseeing She's got 'em," Sissy whispered to Split Yep, that's the sulks all right," Split nodded This is Kate." —  The Madigans
  • I wanted to wear my brown-and-black gingham, and a shaker, but Josiah insisted that I should wear a new lawn dress that he had brought me home as a present, and I had jest got made up. —  Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
  • Anna now wore her every-day dress of gingham, and in her eagerness to see the rabbits she had quite forgotten to try and behave like Melvina Lyon Why, it is a pity to separate the little creatures," Paul declared, when Luretta told him that she had promised one to Anna. —  A Little Maid of Old Maine
 

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  1. Dutch ginggang, from Malay.

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  1. = Dutch gingam, gingas = G. Danish Swedish gingang; the F. form is guingan (= Italian gingamo, ghingano), according to Littré, from Guingamp, a town in Brittany, where this fabric is (said to be) made. Otherwise from Jav. ginggang (Webster), literally perishable, fading (Heyse).
 

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