Town in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of N France. Scene of the first large-scale deployment of tanks in warfare, when British forces attacked the Hindenburg Line to the west of Cambrai (20 November-7 December 1917).

cambric cloth, named after the town where much is made of it

Cambrai (Dutch: Kamerijk; old spelling Cambray) is a French town and commune, in the Nord département, of which it is a sous-préfecture.