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- noun Plural form of
camel .
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Examples
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Dries Van Noten's collection of tomboy blazers in camels and checked tweeds, worn school boy style with the collar popped, were equally sporty.
Damsels in His Dress Josh Patner 2010
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Travel after the wave: steel the elephants and camels from the Seattle zoo.
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A Desert theme complete with pyramids, mummies and camels is fun
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And there was with King Shimakh an officer, by name Timshun, who used every day to carry off two Bactrian563 camels from the land of Irak and cut them up for the bird that it might eat them.
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The three kings can ride horses if they wish; only – we were told you rode on camels from the East.
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That is why we call camels the examiners of space; in your country you would call them animal barometers.
Kari the Elephant Dhan Gopal Mukerji 1913
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The young ladies were exceedingly talkative; they called the camels emus, or, as they pronounced it, immu.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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Having arrived at the Neva, it was floated down the river by what are called camels, that is immense floating fabrics constructed with air chambers so as to render them very buoyant.
The Empire of Russia 1841
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Breckinridge came through El Morro with 25 camels from a short-lived Army experiment.
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The care of the sheep and camels is abandoned to the women of the tribe; but the martial youth, under the banner of the emir, is ever on horseback, and in the field, to practise the exercise of the bow, the javelin, and the cimeter.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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