Ginger

Red-haired people are said to be ginger because Guinevre, the Queen at the Court of King Arthur, had red hair. Gingham. A corruption of Guingamp in Britt any, where the cotton stuff brought from Java, there called gingang , was dyed and made into umbrella covers before silk and alpaca came into use for this purpose. Hence the slang term for an umbrella. See “ Gamp .”