"cambric" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cambrics",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "cambric (countable and uncountable, plural cambrics)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fabrics",
          "orig": "en:Fabrics",
          "parents": [
            "Materials",
            "Manufacturing",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "cambric tea"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1999",
          "text": "His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton."
      ],
      "id": "en-cambric-en-noun-t820p0TY",
      "links": [
        [
          "fabric",
          "fabric"
        ],
        [
          "linen",
          "linen"
        ],
        [
          "cotton",
          "cotton"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "batiste"
        },
        {
          "word": "cambrick"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "cambricke"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cambric"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cambric tea"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cambrics",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "cambric (countable and uncountable, plural cambrics)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Fabrics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1999",
          "text": "His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fabric",
          "fabric"
        ],
        [
          "linen",
          "linen"
        ],
        [
          "cotton",
          "cotton"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "batiste"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cambrick"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "cambricke"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cambric"
}