noun
gingham
GING-um/ˈɡɪŋəm/
Cotton fabric with a pattern of small checks.
The folded gingham displays small, regular blue-and-white checks.
Etymology
Dutch gingang named the cotton fabric. Its reported Malay source denoted “striped cotton,” with competing glosses “striped” and “perishable, fading”; the English word now usually refers to checked fabric.
In context
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
More examples
- She wears a red gingham shirt with jeans.
- We spread a gingham tablecloth over the picnic table.
- This cotton gingham is easy to cut and sew.