Cambric is a thin, fine, usually white cloth. It was first made of linen; later people also made it of cotton. It feels light and a little crisp, not thick or woolly. In older times it was used for handkerchiefs, cuffs, baby clothes, and other things that needed a clean, delicate fabric. You will meet the word more in sewing, history, and shop labels for traditional cloth than in everyday talk about T-shirts or jeans. It is named after Cambrai, a town in northern France where this kind of cloth was made. The name stuck even when the cloth was woven somewhere else. It is a quiet, slightly old-fashioned word — the sort you find on a packet of handkerchiefs or in a description of old clothes, not in slang.

細麻布、麻紗。又薄又白的亞麻或棉布，多見於布料、手帕、舊式衣物，日常口語較少說。