cambric

[ keym-brik ]
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noun
  1. a thin, plain cotton or linen fabric of fine close weave, usually white.

Origin of cambric

1
1520–30; earlier cameryk, after Kameryk,Dutch name of Cambrai

Words Nearby cambric

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How to use cambric in a sentence

  • At the head of the procession was a priest, and at his side a Chinese with a lantern two feet high, covered with white cambric.

  • His gold he wrapped in a cambric cloth, put it into a shot bag, and then into a portmanteau.

  • Over this paste a piece of dark blue cambric, Fig. 3, carefully turning the edges even with the book.

  • Behold how he prances with his manly foot, and brandishes his blade, much as if he were about to measure forth cambric with it.

    The Fortunes of Nigel | Sir Walter Scott
  • And you exhibited to him the vial of chloroform and the piece of cambric?

    The Diamond Coterie | Lawrence L. Lynch

British Dictionary definitions for cambric

cambric

/ (ˈkeɪmbrɪk) /


noun
  1. a fine white linen or cotton fabric

Origin of cambric

1
C16: from Flemish Kamerijk Cambrai

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