chambray
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of chambray
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp.
“She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown, a chambray gauze shift, and a french net nightcap.”
“I had bought some jeans and a couple of blue chambray workshirts to replace the kitchen-whites, but such clothes weren't nearly enough.”
“Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.”
“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”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French cambrai (“cambric”), and its source, Cambrai, the city in France where it originated; probably with alteration after chamber.
Words you can make from chambray
81 playable · top: AMBARY (13 pts)
Best play ambary 13 points6-letter words
1 word5-letter words
10 words4-letter words
24 words3-letter words
32 words- MYC 10 pts
- HAY 9 pts
- YAH 9 pts
- ABY 8 pts
- BAH 8 pts
- BAY 8 pts
- CAY 8 pts
- CRY 8 pts
- HAM 8 pts
- MAY 8 pts
- YAM 8 pts
- BAM 7 pts
- CAB 7 pts
- CAM 7 pts
- MAC 7 pts
- AAH 6 pts
- AHA 6 pts
- RAH 6 pts
- RAY 6 pts
- RYA 6 pts
- YAR 6 pts
- ABA 5 pts
- AMA 5 pts
- ARB 5 pts
- ARC 5 pts
- ARM 5 pts
- BAA 5 pts
- BAR 5 pts
- BRA 5 pts
- CAR 5 pts
- MAR 5 pts
- RAM 5 pts
2-letter words
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