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# gingham

«gingham» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cotton cloth woven in a pattern of checks or stripes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (gingham, no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gingham» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gingham/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.