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cambric|ˈkæmbrɪk, older ˈkeɪmbrɪk|
Forms: 6 camerick(e, -yk(e, -ike, camarick, -ike, (Sc. cammeraige, camorage, camroche), 6–7 cambricke, camerige, 7 cameric, 6–8 cambrick, 8– cambric.
[f. Kameryk or Kamerijk, Flemish name of Cambray:—L. Camaracum, in French Flanders.]
1. a. A kind of fine white linen, originally made at Cambray in Flanders. (Also applied to an imitation made of hard-spun cotton yarn.)
1530Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII, 29 Oct. in Beck Draper's Dict., xxiij elles of cameryk for vj shirtes for the King. c1570Thynne Pride & Lowl. (1841) 19 His shirt had bands and ruffe of pure cambrick. 1578Royal Inv. 232 (Jam.) Ane quaiff of camorage with twa cornettis. 1581Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §113 The wearing of coastelie Cleithing of Silkes..Cammeraige. a1586Maitland Poems (1786) 326 (Jam.) Of fynest camroche thair fuk saillis. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 367 Cover it with a linnen cloth, or for persons of higher dignitie take layre or camerige. 1607Shakes. Cor. i. iii. 95, I would your Cambrick were sensible as your finger. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 478 Cameric, Calecut, &c. had..their denomination from the places where they were first invented. 1712Steele Spect. No. 552 ⁋1 The most delicate cambricks, muslins, and linens. 1735Berkeley Querist §552 Wks. 1871 III. 399 Diapers are made in one town..in another cambrics. 1875Ure Dict. Arts I. 675 Linen cambric..manufactured..from power-spun flax..frequently called cambric muslin.
b. As the material of handkerchiefs.
1886Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328 It is not our habit..to flourish cambric over the woes of any one.
c. attrib. Also cambric tea U.S., a drink composed mainly of hot milk and water, given to children in place of tea.
1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 98 Frenche camarike ruffes. 1714Gay Trivia iii. 82 Cambrick Handkerchiefs reward the Song. 1793J. Beresford in Looker-on No. 79 A cambrick trophy of former achievements. 1888Union Signal (Chicago) 21 Jan. 3 [She] gave me a vast easy chair to sit in..and offered me tea, cambric tea to be sure, but in a beautiful cup. 1944Greeley (Colo.) Daily Tribune 28 Sept. 6/4 Many children dearly love cambric tea, which is made by pouring about two tablespoons of weak tea into a cup of hot milk and adding a dash of sugar. |