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Definition of Ginghams
1. gingham [n] - See also: gingham
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginghams
Literary usage of Ginghams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report on the Statistics of Manufactures by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1899)
"Later, the manufacture of tickings, coarse ginghams, and sheetings was ...
At this time ginghams sold for 75 cents and sheetings for 50 cents per yard. ..."
2. Elementary Home Economics: First Lessons in Sewing and Textiles, Foods and by Mary Lockwood Matthews (1921)
"ginghams Gingham is a cotton fabric which needs especial study because it is ...
Domestic ginghams are a cheap grade of gingham, usually woven of coarse ..."
3. The History of New Ipswich, from Its First Grant in MDCCXXXVI, to the by Frederic] [Kidder, Augustus Addison Gould (1852)
"... so that at the commencement of the war of 1812, a sort of hand-loom manufacture
was carried on of ginghams, Tickings, Shirtings and other articles to a ..."
4. The industrial movement in Ireland, as illustrated by the National by John Francis Maguire (1853)
"CORK ginghams. Mr. Dominick Coakley exhibited a variety of patterns of this
fabric, which lias excited considerable interest in this city, and in Dublin, ..."
5. The American Cotton Industry: A Study of Work and Workers by Thomas Young, M. (1903)
"... rates to Boston and New York—Wages at Manchester—' Unions' and ' ginghams'—
A mill boarding-house—Middle-class comfort and cheap food —Lake Massabesic. ..."
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