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‖ ˈCamarine Obs.
Also camerine.
[f. Camarīna (καµάρῑνα), the name of a Sicilian town, beside which was a pestilential marsh.]
A fetid marsh or swamp. Also fig.
1576Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. To Rdr., This Author..doth not onely..wade into the very Gulph and Camarine of Mans apparant wilfulnesse. 1617S. Collins Def. Bp. Elie 454 And doe wee meruaile now, if King Henry voyded such a Camarine? 1681P. Rycaut Critick 163 The danger of poisonous sents, and Camerines of Customs, which use to envenome and infect the soul. |