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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.