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A lightweight, closely woven white linen or cotton fabric.
‘He wore a plain, cambric shirt and tan breeches that tucked into shiny, black boots.’
‘Loudon stuck four stakes into a plot of grass to support a cambric handkerchief 6 inches above the surface and found that the temperature beneath it remained warmer than the temperature of the surrounding air.’
‘Beneath the ruffled cambric of her night dress the proportions of it seemed huge.’
‘The camp is the Stewart Granger Memorial Collection of 1940s safari tents, with no running water or electricity but with four-poster beds and mosquito nets and cambric sheets and bucket showers and paraffin lamps and butlers.’
‘His work that will be exhibited to mark the world cup, Football Print, is a graphic piece using cambric and wall paint as a medium.’
‘The coif, we know from the accounts, was of cambric lace; there were gloves of white linen and fine cotton wool to dry up the oil after the anointing.’
‘The tent was made of reinforced cambric, fawn coloured, with sewn - in groundsheet, and at each end a circular sleeve-door and ventilator.’
‘The tunic was laced up the front, and its sleeves had long since gone the way of bandages; she left it open at the throat for freedom of movement, and wore a patched cambric shirt beneath.’
Origin
Late Middle English: from Kamerijk, Flemish form of Cambrai, a town in northern France, where it was originally made. Compare with chambray.