Sateen vs Cambric - What's the difference?
sateen | cambric |
A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
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
As nouns the difference between sateen and cambric
is that sateen is a type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin while cambric is a finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.sateen
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(wikipedia sateen)Anagrams
* ----cambric
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Alternative forms
* cambrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia cambric)- Scotch cambric', now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation ' cambric , made from fine hard-twisted cotton.