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gingham

[ US /ˈɡɪŋəm/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈɪŋəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a clothing fabric in a plaid weave

How To Use gingham In A Sentence

  • On her head she had a tawdry brownish black bonnet, that had not improved from two three years 'tholing of sun and wind; a thin rag of a grey duffle mantle was thrown over her shoulders, below which was a checked shortgown of gingham stripe, and a green glazed manco petticoat. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • Jim did these up in the square of gingham, and he tied it across cater-cornered twice, in double knots, and showed Pony how he could put his hand through and carry it just as easy. The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story
  • Edith wore a sweet pink gingham dress with a white ruffle at the hem and a white apron.
  • The Heartland: that mythical place of cherry pie, gingham dresses, honesty, and big-hearted neighbors.
  • As I was bending over her and Paul was thrusting open the shutters, letting in a flood of sunshine and flecky leaf-shadows, a firm, rapid step came down the hall, and a vigorous woman, with a tanned face and a clean, faded gingham dress, stopped short in the doorway with an expression of stupefaction. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
  • The brown gingham and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go. Anne of Green Gables
  • However, the salad 'nicoise' I remember best was at an expensive restaurant in South Yarra during our early courting days; a time when swanky eating places go with the territory along with arthouse movies, wasting entire mornings or afternoons drinking caffe lattes and eating carrot cake in cafes and staying at B&Bs with frilly curtains, gingham tablecloths and hosts who just about sit in your lap at breakfast. Archive 2006-11-01
  • Thus a spiritual gingham impressed upon his soul of souls a matrix, out of which, by a fine progenitive effort, he now begets and ejects a materialized gingham into a potato-plot of the garden without. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
  • It contained a four-poster bed with gingham curtains, a large rug, two large chairs, a bedside table, and a large bookshelf.
  • The picnic table is spread with a red and whit gingham cloth.
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