Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

cambric

cambric (kam"brik) , noun

[Old English camerike, from Cambrai (Flemish Kamerik), a city of France (formerly of Flanders), where it was first made.]

1.
A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow;... inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. — Shakespeare
2.
A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.