chambray

plural chambrays

1. countableuncountableA soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp.First known use 18th c.

   She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown, a chambray gauze shift, and a french net nightcap.

   1793, Jane Austen, “A beautiful description of the different effects of Sensibility on different Minds”, in Juvenilia

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   I had bought some jeans and a couple of blue chambray workshirts to replace the kitchen-whites, but such clothes weren't nearly enough.

   2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 787

   Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.

   2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

   When I arrive I spot the novelist, elegantly dressed in a crisp chambray shirt with a striped scarf tied loosely around his neck, sitting in a booth that both commands an excellent view of a room already raucous with lunchtime chatter

   2026 April 4, Jonathan Derbyshire, “Lunch with the FT: Jay McInerney”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3