Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cambric"
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) 1.7 (wn)
cambric
n : a finely woven white linen
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