Fwd: chambray: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/9/8
Subject: chambray: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Sunday, September 8, 2013 chambray \SHAM-brey\, noun: a fine cloth of cotton, silk, or linen, commonly of plain weave with a colored warp and white weft. On the way out the door, I noticed a video of Kamprad, in a chambray shirt and gold chain, playing on a nearby screen. -- Lauren Collins, "House Perfect," The New Yorker, Oct. 3, 2008 He wears blue jeans and a chambray work shirt over a turtleneck, and the yellow corduroy sport jacket is warm there under the lights, but he knows he needs the pockets. -- Peter LaSalle, Tell Borges If You See Him, 2007 Chambray is an Americanism that arose in the early 1800s. It's a variant of the word cambric, which is named for the city in Northern France, Cambrai via the Dutch word Kameryk. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› If September means "seven" why is it the ninth month? Also, why is it "lucky seven?" We take the predictability of the calendar for granted. But we may have felt differently if we were living under the rule of Julius Caesar. September was the seventh month of the old Roman calendar. In this calendar, the year began in March. But the Julian calendar reform shifted the start of new year back two... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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