He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric.
The man looked elegant in an open-necked, spotless, white cambric shirt.
He was holding his cambric handkerchief to his head.
Her shoulders were covered over with a white cambric nightgown trimmed with lace.
Even his politeness was hardly more than a form of luxurious egotism, like his fondness for cambric handkerchiefs...
End-on-end is almost identical to cambric (also known as chambray), lacking only the calendering which gives cambric fabric its glossy appearance.
Technical use sometime introduced a difference between cambric and batiste, the latter being of a lighter weight and a finer thread count.
The basic propellant charges were contained in 4 small white cambric bags each containing 1 oz of guncotton yarn.
