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chambray

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cham·bray  (shmbr)
n.
A fine lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp.

[Alteration of French cambrai, cambric, after Cambrai, a city of northern France.]

chambray [ˈʃæmbreɪ]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc., with white weft and a coloured warp
[after Cambrai; see cambric]
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Noun1.chambray - a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"


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