cambric

English

Alternative forms

• cambrick, cambricke (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.

Noun

cambric (countable and uncountable, plural cambrics)

1. A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
   • 1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851

     Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1999, Chapter 14,

     His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.

Synonyms

• batiste

Translations

finely-woven fabric — see batiste