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

New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then, with his money tied up in his fine Sunday cambric handkerchief, he walked up to the village of Wall and bade good morning to the guards on the gate.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman