Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cambric \Cam"bric\, n. [OE. camerike, fr. 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. --Shak.

   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}.