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Middlemarch vocabulary
19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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gingham
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► definition
Definition:a less expensive cotton or blend fabric with a checkered, striped or plaid pattern
photo: By Kent Wang (Flickr: Kent Wang pocket square) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 )]
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mom at the kitchen range with a gingham apron and mom waitresses leaning over telling you to finish your soup.
Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club, p.159 (1989)
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The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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two women dressed in new blue-and-white checked ginghams were washing clothes in an iron pot.
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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Full-skirted gingham frock.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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