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- not comparableTypical of or made of gingham; characterized by the homeyness, wholesomeness, etc. associated with gingham.
She first showed you a deliciously dewy and ginghamy country girl with a basket of property daisies […]
1910, O. Henry, “Strictly Business”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, page 63 more examples
It must be a real adventure to see Hempfield on a sunny morning with a new eye, to pass Henderson’s drygoods store and catch the ginghamy whiff from the open doorway […]
1915, Ray Stannard Baker (as David Grayson), chapter 5, in Hempfield, page 75We had a doll’s house to ourselves, fresh and ginghamy, and nationally advertised twin beds, fat as muffins.
1961, John Steinbeck, chapter 18, in The Winter of Our Discontent, page 238She wore a patched skirt over about a dozen cotton petticoats, not so different from her Toulouse-Lautrec outfit but more ginghamy.
2001, Elizabeth McCracken, Niagara Falls All Over Again, page 229
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