Cambric

Definition: Cambric

Cambric

Noun

1. A finely woven white linen.

Date "cambric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references)

Etymology: Cambric \Cam"bric\, noun. [from Old English expression camerike, from Cambrai (Flemish Kamerik), city of France (formerly of Flanders), where it was first made.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Thin cloth similar to muslin, made of worsted, mercerised cotton. Used for blouses, babies'clothes and underwear. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Cambric A kind of very fine white linen cloth, so named from Cambray or Cameryk, in Flanders, where it is still the chief manufacture. "He hath ribbons of all the colours of the rainbow; inkles, caddises, cambricks, and lawns." - Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, iv. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Crossing	Cloth, linen, muslin, cambric;
Materials	Materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum; (food); ammunition; (arms); contingents; relay, reinforcement, reenforcement; baggage; (personal property); means; calico, cambric, cashmere.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cambric

English words defined with "cambric": Cambrasine, cambric tea ♦ Hamburg edging ♦ Muslin cambric. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cambric": RUM CLOUT ♦ wet bulb. (references)

Etymologies containing "cambric": Chambray. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Cambric Mask (1919)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	M. Gillenormand did not permit anybody to explain to him that for making lint cambric is not so good as coarse linen, nor new linen so good as old.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Romania	Prominent investors include manufacturers in heavy industry and electronics - - Timken (bearings), Trinity Industries (freight cars), Solectron (computer and electronic components), Precision Castparts (gasfield exploration equipment), World Machinery Works (machine tools); engineering and design companies - - Washington Group International (engineering and design for the oil, chemical, energy, and industrial processes industries), Cambric Consulting (digital engineering), Search Corporation (road design); ICT companies -- IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Harris, Lucent Technologies, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Oracle, Motorola, KPNQwest, Atomic TV, HBO; consumer goods companies -- Coca-Cola, Quadrant Amroq Beverages (Pepsi), McDonalds, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Philip Morris, Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive; and banking and insurance companies -- Citibank, GE Capital, AIG. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Cambric" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cambric" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	25	69,787

The following table summarizes the usage of "cambric" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Cambric	Last name	100	87,077
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "cambric": cambric muslin ♦ cambric tea ♦ cotton cambric ♦ muslin cambric. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cambric": cambric-paper.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cambric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kambrik. (various references)

Arabic		‏الكمبريكي قماش قطين. (various references)

Bulgarian		батиста. (various references)

Czech		bílá látka podobná bavlnì. (various references)

Danish		batist-tyndt væv af merceriseret,kæmmet bomuldsgarn, batist (batiste, lawn, sheer). (various references)

Dutch		batist (batiste, lawn). (various references)

Esperanto		batisto (batiste, lawn). (various references)

Farsi		نوعی پارچه کتانی ظریف , قمیص . (various references)

Finnish		batisti (batiste). (various references)

French		batiste. (various references)

German		batist (batiste, lawn). (various references)

Greek		βατίστα. (various references)

Hungarian		batiszt (Batiste). (various references)

Indonesian		kain katun halus, kain batis. (various references)

Italian		cambrì, percalle (gingham, percale), battista (baptizer, batiste), batista (batiste, lawn). (various references)

Manx		aanrit keyl (lawn). (various references)

Pig Latin		ambriccay.(various references)

Portuguese		cambraia (batiste, lawn), batista (baptist, batiste, lawn). (various references)

Romanian		chembricã, batist (Batiste). (various references)

Russian		батист (batiste). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta tkanine (maillot, orleans, oxford, purdah, russell). (various references)

Spanish		batista (Batiste, lawn). (various references)

Swedish		batist (Batiste, lawn). (various references)

Thai		ผ้าเนื้อบางสีขาวทำจากฝ้ายหรือลินิน. (various references)

Turkish		patiska (Batiste, calico, lawn), pamuklu ince kumaş, ince beyaz keten. (various references)

Ukranian		тканина для носовиків, батист (lawn). (various references)

Vietnamese		vải lanh mịn khăn mùi xoa, bằng vải lanh mịn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cambric": cambrics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cambric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ambriz, Cabrach, Cambir, Cambois, cambri, cambrica, cambrics, Chambrin, cymric, kabhri, Kombruk, Scanbrit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "cambric" (pronounced 'Cam"bric'): Cimbric, Lumbric. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-i-m-r"
	-2 letters: acmic, baric, circa, mbira, micra, rabic.
	-3 letters: abri, amir, barm, bima, brim, carb, crab, cram, crib, iamb, mair, marc, mica, rami.
	-4 letters: aim, air, ami, arb, arc, arm, bam, bar, bra, cab, cam, car, mac, mar, mib, mir, ram, ria, rib, rim.
	-5 letters: ab, ai, am, ar, ba, bi, ma, mi.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-i-m-r"
	+1 letter: cambrics, carbamic.
	+3 letters: bacteremic, mobocratic.
	+4 letters: macrobiotic, mobocracies.
	+5 letters: amphibrachic, microbalance, mycobacteria.
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