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noun

cambric n.

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."

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cambric" Quotes from Famous Books

... good for one in her position, and each time Aunt Senath was forced to sell the cow, Loveday behaved as though she had as good a right to sit and cry herself silly as any young lady with whom nothing was more urgent than to spoil fine cambric with salt water. ...

— The White Riband - A Young Female's Folly • Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

... shirt-sleeves, his riding-coat over his arm. As he stood there to don it, the little cunning eyes of the heavy father conned him in detail. Observing that his clothes, if plain, were of a good fashion, that his shirt was of fine cambric, and that he expressed himself like a man of culture, such as he claimed to be, M. Pantaloon was disposed ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... slides and shelves attached to the great beams crossing it in several directions. During the shop-day, many an article, light as lace, and heavy as broadcloth, was taken from overhead to lay upon the counter. The shop had a special reputation for all kinds of linen goods, from cambric handkerchiefs to towels, and from table-napkins to sheets; but almost everything was to be found in it, from Manchester moleskins for the navy's trousers, to Genoa velvet for the dowager's gown, and from Horrocks's prints to Lyons ...

— Mary Marston • George MacDonald

... that, of necessity, the tailor cuts the coat according to his cloth; and that he cannot undertake to robe an Ephialtes or a towering Orion suitably when the resources of his shop amount to only a few yards of cambric. Indeed had I the power to make you better, my little book, I would have exercised that power to the utmost. A good conscience is a continual feast, and I summon high Heaven to be my witness that had I ...

— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell

... that night—indeed the hour was dangerously close upon the morning after—before the two friends found themselves alone together again. Rosina lay up among the pillows, the centre of a mass of blue cambric, with tiny bands of lace confining the fulness here and there; while Molly, in such a dressing-gown as grows only in the Rue de la Paix, sat on the foot of the narrow continental bed and thoughtfully bound the braids ...

— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner

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