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Word: cambric (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liable to such desperate yawns as "I must not take leave of Leh without mentioning yet another kind friend. . . ." Indeed, Peaks and Lamas is a museum piece of what might be described as the official prose of the English gentleman. But even his rectory-crumpets-and-cold-cambric-tea manner cannot utterly defeat the notable materials of his second passage to India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Buddhist | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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