Crossword clues for chambray
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chambray \Cham"bray\, n. [From Cambrai, France. Cf. Cambric.] A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, American English, alteration of Cambrai, city in France (formerly Flanders) where the cloth originally was made. Compare cambric.
Wiktionary
n. A soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp.
WordNet
n. a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp
Wikipedia
Chambray is a commune in the Eure department of northern France, located 13 km northeast of Évreux on the north bank of the Eure River.
The Château de Chambray, located to the north of the commune, is the ancestral home of the Marquis de Venevelles d'Espagne.
Usage examples of "chambray".
The dusty and sun-faded jeans, the scuff-toed boots with run-down heels and black marks where the spurs usually rode, the worn-soft chambray workshirt, and the sweat-stained cowboy hat on his head, all were the clothes of a working cowboy.
A short time later, he pushed his arms into a chambray shirt and set off for home.
He was a slim, neat man, clad in tan chinos and a chambray shirt with the cuffs rolled back.
He was wearing jeans and hiking boots and a short-sleeved chambray shirt that revealed the muscularity of his arms.
She studied the blue chambray on his back as he moved away and opened a drawer.
Cameron came down the stairs wearing a clean pair c jeans and an unbuttoned blue chambray shirt, sleeves rolle to the elbows.
She stared at him, at his soft chambray shirt tucked into tight black trousers.
She sat in a plain admiral's chair behind a polished rose-wood table, wearing a hyacinth cardigan over a peach chambray button-through dress, watching interviews on a big wall-mounted flatscreen.
She knocked and he came, holding a dishtowel he'd been using as a pot holder appearing in the doorway above her like Saint Michael the archangel disguised in blue chambray and khaki.
The pack had strung out coming down the long hill, and Stebbins was about a quarter of a mile back, but there was no mistaking those purple pants and that chambray workshirt.
He has on a tweed sport jacket, cashmere sweater vest, cotton chambray shirt, tie, Paul Stuart, Agnes B.
Peter Matheson, looking tanned and fit, his Texas Ranger's badge pinned to his faded chambray shirt, swept his ten-gallon hat off his head, used it as he always did to beat the dust off his stained chaps.