noun
definition
A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
Examples of cambric in a Sentence
And they were sort of cotton, cotton cambric.
This covering removed, I found a white cambric handkerchief, inside of which was something hard.
The chief industry of Cambrai is the weaving of muslin (batiste) and other fine fabrics (see Cambric); wool-spinning and weaving, bleaching and dyeing, are carried on, as well as the manufacture of chicory, oil, soap, sausages and metal boxes.
I want five hundred rubles, and taking out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband's waistcoat.
It's a gossamer sleeveless gown in pure cotton cambric with delicate white flowers and green ribbon design.
The Blue Danube gown is of cotton cambric lawn, full-length and has a sweetheart neckline trimmed in lace.
Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.
The Union gave a considerable impetus to the manufacture, as did also the establishment of the Board of Manufactures in 1727, which applied an annual sum of £2650 to its encouragement, and in 1729 established a colony of French Protestants in Edinburgh, on the site of the present Picardy Place, to teach the spinning and weaving of cambric. From the 1st of November 1727 to the 1st of November 1728 the amount of linen cloth stamped was 2,183,978 yds., valued at £103,312, but for the year ending the 1st of November 1822, when the regulations as to the inspection and stamping of linen ceased, it had increased to 36,268,530 yds., valued at £1,396,296.