chambray.

A lightweight clothing fabric woven with colored warp threads and white filling threads.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a chambray shirt
• lightweight chambray
• chambray fabric

On the page

White threads showed between the blue warp of his chambray shirt.

The chambray looked paler where the folded edge caught the light.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / image-rich description. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Positive complete definition: lightweight clothing fabric with colored warp and white filling yarns. Not necessarily blue and not automatically denim. Individually checked for a distinct image, texture, sound, taste, smell, visual-perception or artistic function. Definitions/examples are original; sensory strength is not assumed to imply emotion. Writing functions: colored-and-white yarn structure, light clothing fabric.