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Word entry · 7 letters

gingham

Best crossword clue

"Checkered cotton"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɪŋ.əm/Part of speech nounSorted agghimnStarts with GEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a clothing fabric in a plaid weave

Word origin

From Malay genggang (“ajar; apart”), or a corruption of French Guingamp, the name of a town in Brittany, France, where this cloth may have been made.

Used in a sentence

  • 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!
  • Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.
  • Tradwifedom, the meekly old-fashioned vision of domesticity served up on Instagram by a bunch of submissive influencers in aprons, is a gingham-lined trap visible from space […].

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