Cambric
['kæmbrɪk;'keɪm-] or ['kæmbrɪk]
Definition
(n.) A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
(n.) 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.
Inputed by Giles
Definition
n. a kind of fine white linen originally manufactured at Cambrai in the French department of Nord.
Inputed by Jackson
Examples
- Such cambric, white as driven snow! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Dead, sir--dead,' said the stranger, applying to his right eye the brief remnant of a very old cambric handkerchief. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By the time I was settled, Rosanna had dried her own eyes with a very inferior handkerchief to mine--cheap cambric. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Marie lay back on a lounge, and covered her face with her cambric handkerchief. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She was not fascinated, only puzzled, by his grinning, his simpering, his scented cambric handkerchief, and his high-heeled lacquered boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I should so like to have all my cambric frilling double-hemmed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And she has begun to buy in the best linen and cambric for her underclothing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But you--I shudder to think what you would have been--a curate in debt for horse-hire and cambric pocket-handkerchiefs! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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