cambric
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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
Bulganin, as Premier, has laid aside his marshal's uniforms and taken to soft, dark suits, silk socks and cambric shirts.
From Time Magazine Archive
A woman in a fine cambric gown sat with her back to us, unmoving in a chair.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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