cambric

Example Sentences

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From April 18 through April 30, the cottage will be draped in black cambric, as it was after the assassination.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2015

Sybil Connolly's 1966 leaf-green pleated skirt, embroidered white blouse and pink belt is a cool reinvention of the evening dress: daringly, it is made of cambric and linen.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2012

It conjures up other images we have of him as stout, natty, in tweed suit, cambric shirt and ankle boots, a human brandy snifter.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2010

Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago.

From Time Magazine Archive

A paper collar was made out of thin cambric stiffly starched.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith