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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Gingham_teatowel.jpg/220px-Gingham_teatowel.jpg)
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
gingham (countable and uncountable, plural ginghams)
- (uncountable) A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks.
- 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
- Aunt Elizabeth had produced a terrible gingham apron and an equally terrible gingham sunbonnet from somewhere in the New Moon garret, and made Emily put them on. The apron was a long sack-like garment, high in the neck, with sleeves.
- (countable) A dress made from that material.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 187:
- "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."
- (UK, slang, archaic) An umbrella.
- 1878, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, George Cruikshank's Table-book, page 268:
- […] their ginghams stuck under their arms at right angles to their back-bones […]
Translations
a cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks
See also
Further reading
gingham on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:gingham on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
gingham m (definite singular ginghamen, indefinite plural ginghamer, definite plural ginghamene)
- (countable and uncountable) gingham
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
gingham m (definite singular ginghamen, indefinite plural ginghamar, definite plural ginghamane)
- (countable and uncountable) gingham
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