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8 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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cambric
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synonyms: batiste ???
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Definition:a lightweight, fine, white, linen or cotton fabric
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
He once was a true love of mine
Tell him to make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seams nor needle work
Then he'll be a true love of mine
Scarborough Fair (ballad)
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she bent her flushed face over a tiny bag in which she was packing a nightcap and some cambric handkerchiefs. Her eyes were particularly bright, and were continually swimming with tears.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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In the swan-skin coverlid, and cambric sheets,
Till he work honey and wax, my little God's-gift.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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She was then proceeding to all the particulars of calico, muslin, and cambric, and would shortly have dictated some very plentiful orders, had not Jane, though with some difficulty, persuaded her to wait, till her father was at leisure to be consulted.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trousers; and his fine frilled shirt and cambric neckcloth looked unusually soft and white, reminding my strolling fancy (I call to mind) of the plumage on the breast of a swan.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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pressing my cheek against the smudged cambric of his shirt.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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