gingham

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!
• Aunt Elizabeth had produced a terrible gingham apron and an equally terrible gingham sunbonnet from somewhere in the New Moon garret, and made Emily put them on. The apron was a long sack-like garment, high in the neck, with sleeves.

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."

An umbrella.UKarchaiccountable

• […] their ginghams stuck under their arms at right angles to their back-bones […]