Cambric vs Lawn - What's the difference?
cambric | lawn |
A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
* 1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
* , chapter=1
, title= (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
(countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
* 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
As nouns the difference between cambric and lawn
is that cambric is a finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton while lawn is an open space between woods.As a proper noun Lawn is
a town in Newfoundland and Labrador.cambric
English
Alternative forms
* cambrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia cambric)- Scotch cambric', now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation ' cambric , made from fine hard-twisted cotton.
Synonyms
* batistelawn
English
(wikipedia lawn)Etymology 1
Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English landNoun
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Derived terms
* lawn mower * lawnedEtymology 2
Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.Noun
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
