cambre
English
Noun
cambre (plural cambres)
- Obsolete form of camber.
- 1858, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 613:
- To the southward of this is another entrance which opens into a port or cambre for boats and lumps, and then into a smaller basin‐de‐flot for the smaller steamers, and for the loading of lighters with provisions, &c.
- Alternative spelling of cambré.
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French
Verb
cambre
- inflection of cambrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Noun
cambre f
- plural of cambra
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Norman
Etymology
From Old French cambre.
Pronunciation
Noun
cambre f (plural cambres)
Old French
Noun
cambre oblique singular, f (oblique plural cambres, nominative singular cambre, nominative plural cambres)
- alternative form of chambre