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- noun Plural form of
cambrick .
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Examples
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French laces, cambricks, linen, and other valuable goods; which she has a way of coming at duty-free; and has a great vend for them
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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All the cloaths coarse and fine, bed and table linen, lawns, cambricks and muslins, chints, checks, all are promiscuously thrown into a copper with a quantity of water and a large piece of soap.
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Bounties were given on British linen cloth exported; while the making of cambricks was promoted, partly by prohibiting the foreign and partly by giving fresh incentives, though without success, to the manufacture of cambricks within our island.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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