How To Use Gingham In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Edith wore a sweet pink gingham dress with a white ruffle at the hem and a white apron.
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The Heartland: that mythical place of cherry pie, gingham dresses, honesty, and big-hearted neighbors.
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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
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The brown gingham and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go.
Anne of Green Gables
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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
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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
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It contained a four-poster bed with gingham curtains, a large rug, two large chairs, a bedside table, and a large bookshelf.
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The picnic table is spread with a red and whit gingham cloth.
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Which means that you can use other regularly "plaided" if there is such a word fabrics, not just gingham.
Tuck into this one ... - A Dress A Day
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Gradually, the women faded away as they left for lunch, and Elizabeth set up her and Jack's own meal on a red gingham cloth.
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Melissa Richmond was wearing a shirtwaister dress in blue gingham that made her look like a schoolgirl.
THE BOOK LADY
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For invitations send out little gingham sachets of dried herbs (from last year's harvest) with a tag telling the recipient about the luncheon including the date and time.
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She has a red and white gingham dress and blond pigtails.
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Using a fabric button kit from the craft or fabric store, cover a large button with fabric to coordinate with your sandals - blue terry cloth and red-and-white gingham in this case.
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Her uniform was a plain gingham dress, brought from home, and sensible low-heeled white shoes.
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Popularity in the 21st Century
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Wear them with a pink oxford or gingham, and madras or repp tie or bowtie, and it equals classic prep.
Spring Shoes for Men Step Brightly
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She wears stretch jeans and a white sweatshirt with glittery appliquéd gingham teddy bears.
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In late September, the gingham amendment passed the House by an overwhelming vote of 318 to 63.
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The men attended dressed as farmers, gardeners, mule drivers, and country squires, smoking corncob pipes and wearing bandannas, while the women wore sun bonnets, calico frocks, and gingham aprons.
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New Business Card Pictures
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There was a large, low-ceiled room, with clacking, rattling machines at which men in white shirt sleeves and blue gingham aprons were working.
Sister Carrie
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From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc.
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I thought my pink and white gingham check shirt was just the thing.
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By 1919, U.S. textile mills churned out more than three hundred million square yards of cotton gingham alone. 3 Much of this fabric was intended for use by the garment industry, but it was also sold by the yard in catalogs, at department and specialty stores, and by peddlers.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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And what you would have formerly thought of as sporty - tattersalls, gingham checks, and subtle plaids - now come in dressed-up versions.
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i want to be a china doll. when i had dark hair, i was often referred to as a geisha (once). the right side of my body will be outfitted in an evening dress and the left side of my body will be covered in a gingham print.
China doll
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I remember a red gingham dress embellished with red ric rac, a black and blue plaid with black velvet collar and cuffs, a lovely cream with tiny red rosettes and one of those big collars trimmed in cream - colored eyelet, a salmon shantung that I wore for graduation from high school, and my very favorite -- a cream with pink and periwinkle flowers.
1990's Sewing Patterns
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Then there are fuchsia pinks, gingham and ruffles to play with.
The Sun
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It was music that made everything seem like an endless Californian summer: drinks on the beach, girls in gingham bikinis.
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Spread out on the gingham picnic blanket was a delicious meal of radish soufflé, sweet glazed carrots, and parsleyed potatoes.
Kenny & the Dragon
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Suddenly, I find myself holding up one of the tiny outfits with the same cooing glee as my wife had just held up the pinafores and gingham sun dresses.
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Gingham is a lightweight, washable, stout fabric that is woven in checks, plaids or stripes.
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Gingham is huge for summer; it's a natural evolution of the cotton shirting trend.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pink hair and an oversized gingham shirt with its shoulders cut out?
Times, Sunday Times
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Make an herb wreath for the kitchen by wiring on fresh herbs to a grapevine wreath and adding chilies, bouquet garni, tiny terracotta pots and a big gingham bow.
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The principal manufactures are winceys, ginghams, woollen shirtings, flannels, linen thread, linen yarn, ropes, and fishing nets; and there are engineering and ironfounding works.
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The girl wore khaki culottes and a loose, sleeveless blouse of green gingham.
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Gingham fabrics always look fresh and pretty.
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She wears stretch jeans and a white sweatshirt with glittery appliquéd gingham teddy bears.
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Pedal pushers and prom queens, floral corsages and full skirts, gingham checks and clinched waists - all were the essence of Fifties style, of a time when girls were gals and boys were teddies.
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Her face was inscrutable, but her fingers clenched and unclenched beneath the frilled gingham of her pinafore.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Patterns ranged from small ginghams to windowpane checks to colorful mid-sized madras plaids.
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Perhaps she likes 80s inspired punk fabrics, or checks or gingham or something else all together.
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In her little blue-gingham morning dress, out of which her neck flowered white and ever beautiful of nape, Lilly crumbled up her biscuit, eyes miserably down, the red-hot pricklings which invariably accompanied these scenes flashing over her and a crowding in her throat as if she must tear it open for language to make them understand.
Star-Dust
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Terminology has always been a challenge - one designer may describe a fabric as a gingham, the next a check.
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Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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What do you suggest I start buying besides denim, gingham, and calico?
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I saw a cute little waistcoat in a Burda magazine, done in gingham fabric, piped all around the edges, and on the back was a placket done up with ties.
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The comforter is bound on three side and reverses to a gingham check for a change when you want something different.
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Gingham is a yarn-dyed cotton fabric (as opposed to a printed fabric) with solid, checked, striped, or plaid designs, most commonly known in its checkered form.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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To produce cloth, yarn was ‘put out’ to local handweavers who made bed ticking, stripes, checks, chambray, ginghams, plaids, sheetings and shirtings.
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She bought herself three new dresses; a neat gingham for morning wear, a delaine for afternoons, and something nicer for best.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle
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His plaid shirt and jeans make a good match for her gingham dress, while his masculine work boots match well with her cheap thong sandals.
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And the gingham ones would be great too; I could make different gingham dresses to wear with the shoes! blackwhite, bluewhite, pinkwhite... who cares.
If Loving These is Wrong (you know the rest) - A Dress A Day
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Tiny flower prints or gingham for a casual country look, swagged silky fabric, bright or pastel tissue paper for more formal occasions.
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The British return to their heritage roots with tweed, gingham and tartan making a cool comeback.
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We gladly accepted his kind offer; he had made his bow, and was cruising amongst the smokers, and punch drinkers, where the blue coated masters of the English merchantmen and American skippers, were hobbing and nobbing with the gingham -- coated Dons, for the whole
Tom Cringle's Log
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They manage to combine a mumsy gingham - clad homeliness with rank extremism.
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Edith wore a sweet pink gingham dress with a white ruffle at the hem and a white apron.
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The red gingham is gorgeous - it feels really nice, not like those nasty cheap ones that seem to be all over the place whenever I go shopping for gingham school uniform fabrics - nasty, polycotton, melty when you iron them, y'know the ones?
Archive 2009-01-01
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(These are also countries where you will genuinely still see people carrying their shopping around the local city markets in wicker baskets, some even with gingham linings.)
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