cambric

Example Sentences

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No one was thinking at that day of the mills that would dot New England, where cotton cloths, calicoes, and cambrics would be turned out by the bale.

From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

France is noted for the manufacture of linen lawns and cambrics, and Belfast, Ireland, for table-cloths and napkins.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

In England, in 1742, the export-premiums for linen were defrayed by enhanced entry-duties on cambrics.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

The girls wore their fresh cambrics 8 and plain straw hats: no one seemed to think it necessary to put on smart clothing when they wished to visit their friends.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

There was another form of this French embroidery, the materials used being cambrics, linens, and muslins of all kinds, the most precious of which were the linen-cambrics and India mulls.

From The Development of Embroidery in America by Wheeler, Candace