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Webster 1913 Edition


cambric

cam′bric

(kăm′brĭk)
,
Noun.
[OE.
camerike
, fr.
Cambrai
(Flemish
Kamerik
), a city of France (formerly of Flanders), where it was first made.]
1.
A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
He hath ribbons of all the colors i’ the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises,
cambrics
, lawns.
Shakespeare
2.
A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; – also called
cotton cambric
, and
cambric muslin
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cambric

CAMBRIC

,
Noun.
A species of fine white linen, made of flax, said to be named from Cambray in Flanders, where it was first manufactured.

Definition 2024


cambric

cambric

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Noun

cambric (countable and uncountable, plural cambrics)

  1. A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
    • 1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851
      Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton.
    • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1999, Chapter 14,
      His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.

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