gingham

Noun

1. A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks.
   • And she found that she was not wearing a despised muslin frock! Her dress was gingham!—an adorable plaid with long sleeves, and a patch-pocket low down on the right side! - 1913, Eleanor Gates, The Poor Little Rich Girl:
   • 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,...
   • Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray. - 2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and...
2. A dress made from that material.
   • "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." - 1838 (date...
3. An umbrella.
   • […] their ginghams stuck under their arms at right angles to their back-bones […] - 1878, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, George Cruikshank's Table-book, page 268: