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camelry|ˈkæməlrɪ|
[f. camel n. + -ry (in sense 1 after cavalry).]
1. Troops mounted on camels.
1854Liddell & Scott Greek Lex. s.v. κάµηλος, ἡ κάµηλος, like ἡ ἵππος, the camels in an army, as one might say the camelry. 1883G. A. Simcox Latin Lit. II. vi. iv. 176 It was Crœsus who frightened his enemy's cavalry by his camelry. 1885Times 2 July 5 General Buller and the second half of the ‘Light Camelry’..left Assouan to-day. Ibid. 16 July 12/3 The Camelry is a new force in the British Army. It is neither, properly speaking, cavalry nor infantry..A special flag had, therefore, been invented representing a black camel rampant upon a white ground.
2. ‘A place where camels are laden and unladen.’
1882in Annandale Imperial Dict. |