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Cambric's relative
Answer for the clue "Cambric's relative ", 7 letters:
percale
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Word definitions for percale in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Percale \Per`cale"\, n. [F.] A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear, and for bedsheets.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, name of a fabric imported from the East; in modern use, 1840, from French percale , perhaps ultimately from Persian pargalah "a rag."
Usage examples of percale.
The night let her pass unescorted except for what she brought with her, the pop-pop-pop of her little engine, the flap of wind in the percale of her wings, and the siffle of air slipping through the wire struts that held her biplane together.
There were velvets, lawns, percales, soft woofs, mohair, swansdown, shalloon, prunella, tammy, tulle, organdy, crepe, the delicate French laces.