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Striped or checked cotton cloth
Answer for the clue "Striped or checked cotton cloth ", 7 letters:
gingham
Alternative clues for the word gingham
Word definitions for gingham in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a clothing fabric in a plaid weave
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Dutch gingang , traders' rendering of a Malay word said to be ginggang "striped," used as a noun with the sense of "striped cotton." Also from the same source, French guingan , Spanish guinga , Italian gingano , German gingang .
Usage examples of gingham.
By noon I was simply crazy with my stuffy, long-sleeved, high-necked blue gingham dress and my great clumpy shoes.
Peg had let it out, inserting gussets of the pink gingham persuasion, which lent her the appearance of an exploding cushion.
West Forty-seventh Street that he calls the Gingham Shop, and play a little klob with Charley, because business is quiet in the Gingham Shop at such an hour, and Charley gets very lonesome.
I sit down to play klob with Good Time Charley, but about this time several customers come into the Gingham Shop, so Charley has to go and take care of them, leaving me alone.
The room was low, slanting on one side, unpapered, uncarpeted, and only lighted by two little dormer-windows, which did their best to admit pure daylight in spite of the dark gingham curtains so trimly hung before them.
A picture flashed in his mind of the homesteader girl, Lillian, in her cheap gingham dress and skin that was already browning from the sun.
But in a moment Alfred reappeared, stepping smartly, followed by Julie dressed sedately in blue gingham.
Gingham Shop over in Forty-seventh Street, and how Charley is not going so good the last time I am in there, and here is maybe a chance for me to steer a little trade his way, because, after all, guys with two yards in their pocket are by no means common nowadays.
The women washed dresses, pink ginghams and flowered cottons, and they hung them in the sun and stretched the cloth to smooth it.
Drew stood in the door of the milkshed, very lovely in red-checked gingham and a blue apron.
Bolts of gingham and calico, plowpoints, bottles of ink, fiddle strings and fishhooks, packets of steel needles, gunpowder and flints, bar lead and bullet molds, axeheads, blank books and wool blankets, laudanum and coffee beans, pistols and palm-leaf hats and horse fleams.
Eva had given way on the gingham dresses and the quads had agreed not to go in their oldest and most patched jeans.
Bouncing along in their straw hats and pink-and-white gingham bikinis, the twins will look less formidable, like figures out of a beach-blanket movie.
Claudia had spent the whole of the previous month sewing pretty gingham curtains for it, complete with tie-backs and matching appliqued gingham cushions for the child-sized furniture.
On his bedstand were two photos, one a sepia-toned picture of his parents, the other a print of a rather nondescript girl in a gingham dress.