GINGHAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gingham mean? 

• GINGHAM (noun)
  The noun GINGHAM has 1 sense:

1. a clothing fabric in a plaid weave

  Familiarity information: GINGHAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GINGHAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clothing fabric in a plaid weave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gingham" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

The girl washed herself carefully, dressed herself in the clean gingham, and tied her pink sunbonnet on her head.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I'll be married in this lilac gingham: you may make a dressing-gown for yourself out of the pearl-grey silk, and an infinite series of waistcoats out of the black satin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. March glanced at Meg, who was looking very pretty in her gingham morning gown, with the little curls blowing about her forehead, and very womanly, as she sat sewing at her little worktable, full of tidy white rolls, so unconscious of the thought in her mother's mind as she sewed and sang, while her fingers flew and her thoughts were busied with girlish fancies as innocent and fresh as the pansies in her belt, that Mrs. March smiled and was satisfied.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)