n. A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A cotton fabric woven of plain dyed yarns, in a single color or different colors, or of dyed and white yarns, combined in grays or other mixtures, checks, plaids, or stripes.
Made or consisting of gingham.
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n. a clothing fabric in a plaid weave
Word Usage
"I was so moved by his images on the wall: black women in gingham dresses with mile-wide smiles as they held up their voter registration cards; Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King at the funeral of the civil rights leader; images of Negro League players; striking sanitation workers with their "I Am a Man" signs from just weeks before King's assassination."