gingham

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks. uncountable
    — And she found that she was not wearing a despised muslin frock! Her dress was gingham!—an adorable plaid with long sleeves, and a patch-pocket low down on the right side!
  2. A dress made from that material. countable
    — "We have put on the pale blue silks that we wore at Isabella's wedding; that, however, was Georgiana's thought," continued Helen; "she said it would be impossible to go to church in our pink ginghams."
  3. An umbrella. UK,archaic,countable,slang,uncountable
    — […] their ginghams stuck under their arms at right angles to their back-bones […]

词形变化

ginghams plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ginghamed
相关词
seersucker

词源

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.
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