(n.) A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
Example Sentences:
(1) GBBO might raise the question of which murky figure is pushing all this gingham-heavy Great British prefix TV.
(2) Only authenticity.” It’s not as though the owner of Farmer’s Daughter, the LA motel with the old agricultural equipment and swaths of gingham hanging from the walls that Self writes about, thinks they’re Michelangelo.
(3) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
(4) During the Canadian dragon race he wore a blue and white gingham shirt with several buttons open, with grey denim and an Aztec-style belt.
(5) In a demented attempt to help misguided women foolish enough to make commit this fashion faux pax, one establishment offered me a wrap-around gingham skirt that I could don over my slacks and thereby gain entrance to the power brokers' dining room.
(6) Yes, yes, Whitstable went all Padstow years ago: now you can't move for organic nappies and Cath Kidston gingham curtains.
(7) The walls are set about with union jack bunting, and at the front of the tent are tables with gingham cloths, little assemblages of wicker baskets to evoke a picnic outing from the 1950s, and eggshell-blue-painted dressers and chests adorned with china, enamel jugs and vintage bread bins.
(8) There are brightly coloured rocking chairs in the rooms, gingham curtains, denim bedspreads and if you're in the mood for love there's a "No-Tell Room" where you'll find mirrors on the ceiling and a fully stocked bar, as well as a mural of a wheat field to inspire a roll around in the hay.
(9) Beckham’s collection on the runway was a riot of colour and print – gingham, pumpkin orange, hibiscus flowers, an image of a surfer on a wave and windowpane checks, sometimes all in the same outfit.
Tartan
Definition:
(n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
(n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.
Example Sentences:
(1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
(2) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
(3) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(4) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
(5) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
(6) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(7) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
(8) As is regularly observed by the tartan twitterati, Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs, so Tories popping north to advise the natives on their voting duty are liable to prove counter-productive.
(9) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
(10) Next in line was the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, that’s IHMC, in Pensacola, and in third place was Tartan Rescue from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center.
(11) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
(12) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
(13) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
(14) The Tartan Army, as its fans are collectively known, is well-known for its open and passionate rivalry with the ancient and traditional foe, England, although one recent opinion suggested more Scots are either neutral or back England than don't.
(15) Then over the cardigan you wear a gold leather bodice and then a giant tartan coat.
(16) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
(17) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
(18) "We want a striker" was the next chant to emanate from the Tartan Army; Mackie was operating in that lone role after the withdrawl of Miller.
(19) Tartan, for instance, for all its treasured place in the royal family's dressing-up box, appears to be as innocuously iconic to nationalists, in the approach to the referendum, as are tributes to William Wallace and celebrations of Bannockburn, in which around 11,000 English soldiers died.
(20) 11.35am: My colleague Kevin McCarra also believes England fans have turned over a new leaf: I have been watching the amiable England fans in Port Elizabeth and, troublingly for a a jock like me, I realised they have taken over the Tartan Army's determinedly good-natured approach now that Scotland no longer bother with major tournaments.