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- noun Plural form of
chambray .
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Examples
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Iron colored clothes -- lawns, dimities, percales, chambrays, etc. -- on the wrong side, with an iron not too hot, otherwise the color is apt to be injured.
The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907
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This is especially true of indigo-blue floor covering, since so few things are absolutely perfect as an adjunct to the blue chambrays, striped awning-cloths, denims, and India prints so constantly and effectively used in draperies.
How to make rugs Candace Wheeler 1875
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Monarch Cleaners, on 111th Street, advertised stainless-steel washers, and Gordons Women's Apparel boasted of summer dresses in "silk, Bemberg sheers, linens, chambrays, pique, shantungs and more."
Chicago Reader 2010
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Add a dip dyed neon colored scarf to your spring wardrobe and pair it with crisp, clean whites and chambrays.
Omiru: Style for All Trisha 2010
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Monarch Cleaners, on 111th Street, advertised stainless-steel washers, and Gordons Women's Apparel boasted of summer dresses in "silk, Bemberg sheers, linens, chambrays, pique, shantungs and more."
Chicago Reader 2010
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Add a dip dyed neon colored scarf to your spring wardrobe and pair it with crisp, clean whites and chambrays.
Omiru: Style for All Trisha 2010
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Add a dip dyed neon colored scarf to your spring wardrobe and pair it with crisp, clean whites and chambrays.
Omiru: Style for All Trisha 2010
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Add a dip dyed neon colored scarf to your spring wardrobe and pair it with crisp, clean whites and chambrays.
Omiru: Style for All Trisha 2010
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Monarch Cleaners, on 111th Street, advertised stainless-steel washers, and Gordons Women's Apparel boasted of summer dresses in "silk, Bemberg sheers, linens, chambrays, pique, shantungs and more."
Chicago Reader 2010
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This is testified by the statement of a prominent official, Alfonso Nunez de Castro in 1675: "Let London manufacture those fine fabrics of hers to her heart's content; let Holland her chambrays; Florence her cloth; the Indies their beaver and vicuna; Milan her brocade, Italy and Flanders their linens … so long as our capital can enjoy them; the only thing it proves is that all nations train their journeymen for Madrid, and that Madrid is the queen of Parliaments, for all the world serves her and she serves nobody."
Infowars aaron 2010
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