Guingamp, a French town in Côtes-du-Nord, on the Trieux, 74 miles E. of Brest, was formerly the capital of the duchy of Penthièvre. Hence the word Gingham (q.v.). Pop. 8744.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 458
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