different between cambre vs cambro

English

Noun

cambre (plural cambres)

1. 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.

2. Alternative spelling of cambré

Anagrams

• camber, cembra

French

Verb

cambre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cambrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cambrer

Italian

Noun

cambre f

1. plural of cambra

Old French

Noun

cambre f (oblique plural cambres, nominative singular cambre, nominative plural cambres)

1. Alternative form of chambre

English

Etymology

From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company.

Noun

cambro (plural cambros)

1. An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
   • 2000, Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver, page 192:

     At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros.

   • 2006, Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook, page 532:

     You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros.

Anagrams

• comarb, crambo