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# gingham

noun (gingham, no plural)

«gingham» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Gingham is a cotton cloth woven in a pattern of checks or stripes, often blue and white. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingham/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, a girl's clean dress or apron is made of gingham to show she is poor but tidy

### Examples

- She wore a blue gingham dress. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingham/#x1)
- The tablecloth was white and red gingham. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingham/#x2)
- Mother sewed a gingham apron. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingham/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gingham» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingham/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gingham» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gingham.html) on Mova free.