Cambric

(noun.) a finely woven white linen.

安东录入

• Such cambric, white as driven snow! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Dead, sir--dead,' said the stranger, applying to his right eye the brief remnant of a very old cambric handkerchief. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• By the time I was settled, Rosanna had dried her own eyes with a very inferior handkerchief to mine--cheap cambric. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Marie lay back on a lounge, and covered her face with her cambric handkerchief. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She was not fascinated, only puzzled, by his grinning, his simpering, his scented cambric handkerchief, and his high-heeled lacquered boots. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I should so like to have all my cambric frilling double-hemmed. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And she has begun to buy in the best linen and cambric for her underclothing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But you--I shudder to think what you would have been--a curate in debt for horse-hire and cambric pocket-handkerchiefs! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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