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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cambric \Cam"bric\, n. [OE. camerike fr Cambrai (Flemish Kamerik), a city of France (formerly of Flanders), where it was first made.] 1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. --Shak. 2. A fabric made in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called {cotton cambric}, and {cambric muslin}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cambric n : a finely woven white linen
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