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cham⋅bray

[sham-brey]
–noun
a fine cloth of cotton, silk, or linen, commonly of plain weave with a colored warp and white weft.

Origin:
1805–15, Americanism; var. of cambric
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cham·bray   (shām'brā')   
n.  A fine lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp.

[Alteration of French cambrai, cambric, after Cambrai, a city of northern France.]
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chambray 
1814, Amer.Eng., alt. of Cambrai, city in France where the cloth was originally made.
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