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   cambric , n. [OE. camerike, fr. Cambrai (Flemish Kamerik), a city of France (formerly of Flanders), where it was first made.]
   A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
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   He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns.
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   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.
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