cambric

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a fine, closely woven white fabric originally made of linen and now also made of cotton

   The conservator unfolded a delicate cambric handkerchief from the nineteenth century.

Named through Dutch or Flemish Kamerijk for Cambrai, the city in northern France associated with its manufacture. Cambric originally denoted a very fine white linen; the name later extended to similarly fine, closely woven cotton cloth.

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