"gingham" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɪŋ.əm/ Audio: En-us-gingham.ogg Forms: ginghams [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ms|genggang||ajar; apart}} Malay genggang (“ajar; apart”), {{der|en|fr|Guingamp}} French Guingamp Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gingham (countable and uncountable, plural ginghams)
  1. (uncountable) A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Fabrics Translations (a cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks): 格子棉布 (gaak³ zi² min⁴ bou³) (Chinese Cantonese), 格子棉布 (gézi miánbù) (Chinese Mandarin), vichy [masculine] (French), კუბოკრული ქსოვილი (ḳuboḳruli ksovili) (Georgian), Gingan [masculine] (German), ginggon (Hiligaynon), guingeám [masculine] (Irish), guingeán [masculine] (Irish), ギンガム (gingamu) (Japanese), 깅엄 (ging'eom) (Korean), gingana (Malagasy), genggang (Malay), gingam (Malay), kanggan (Maranao), guinga (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-gingham-en-noun-dYtVLTkW Disambiguation of Fabrics: 52 15 33 Disambiguation of 'a cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks': 84 14 2
  2. (countable) A dress made from that material. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-gingham-en-noun-YtJOmxVS
  3. (UK, slang, archaic) An umbrella. Tags: UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gingham-en-noun-IjQOV5M4 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hiligaynon translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Malagasy translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maranao translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 16 59 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 16 68 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 13 13 74 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 13 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 8 7 85 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 10 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 13 6 80 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 10 9 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Hiligaynon translations: 10 7 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 11 7 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 8 8 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 11 7 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Malagasy translations: 8 7 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 11 7 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 14 11 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Maranao translations: 11 10 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 8 8 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: seersucker

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.