Camfordn.adj.
/ˈkamfəd/ = Oxbridge n. and adj.
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state college1806
state university1811
Oxbridge1849
Camford1850
state1899
multiversity1926
Ivy League1939
red brick1943
televersity1950
televarsity1961
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xiv. 135 He was a Camford man and very nearly got the English Prize Poem.
1924 E. F. Benson David of King's i. 5 Useless..to delude the intelligent reader into believing that it was Queen's Parade at Oxbridge or Prince's Parade at Camford.
1939 H. G. Wells Holy Terror i. ii. 37 Camford..had never made the slightest attempt to give any coherent picture of the universe to the new generation that came to it for instruction.
1961 Observer 26 Mar. 29/4 The Camford-style Sermon on the Mount.
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n.adj.1850