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A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.

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  1. n. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. a finely woven white linen
  4. 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.
  5. A Welshman.
  6. n. a finely woven white linen