Talk:Cambric
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Is Batiste the same? Xx236 10:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cambric shirt
Isn't a Cambric shirt something you get buried in? linas 05:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cambric material
Cambric is much older than Monsieur Cambrai and therefore could not have been invented by him - this derivation must therefore be considered bogus.
The word appears as "cambre" in the online Anglo-Norman Dictionary with several meanings:
♦ hemp ♦ linen ♦ cambric (linen cloth)
The Anglo-Norman dictionary includes citations for its use in literature with these specific meanings, dating from the 12th century onwards. Cambre is derived from the town of Cambrai in France which was a main centre of production ('Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1928 edition'). As with many terms for fabric, its meaning has changed over the centuries and the term later came to be applied to cotton cloth, which was an extremely rare commodity in the 12th century.
Ranulfus 09:52, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Monsieur Cambrai
Ranulfus, I think the "Jean-Baptiste Cambrai" is from a botched edit from November 14, 2005 (replacing "first used in Cambrai"). Whoever put that in must've meant Jean-Baptiste something-or-other in Cambrai, France.
(Kejo13 (talk) 19:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC))
