"cambric" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cambrics [plural], cambrick [alternative], cambricke [alternative]
Etymology: From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cambric (countable and uncountable, plural cambrics)
  1. A finely woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: batiste Derived forms: cambric tea Related terms: chambray
    Sense id: en-cambric-en-noun-N7EWSCRL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Fabrics

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
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        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cambrick",
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          "orig": "en:Fabrics",
          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "cambric tea"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
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            [
              109,
              117
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          ],
          "ref": "1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:",
          "text": "Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851",
          "text": "Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton."
        },
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              29,
              36
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          "ref": "1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1999:",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cambrick",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "cambricke",
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
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          "text": "Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851",
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        },
        {
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            [
              29,
              36
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          ],
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          "text": "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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      ],
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          "linen"
        ],
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "batiste"
        }
      ],
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  ],
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}

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