Camelbacked
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having a back like a camel's; humpbacked.
"With Edward [I of England] went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaſter, ſurnamed Crouch-back; not that he was crook-ſhouldered, or camel-backed: […] but from the Croſſe, anciently called a Crouch (whence Crouched Friars) which now he wore in his voyage to Jeruſalem."
Example
More examples"With Edward [I of England] went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaſter, ſurnamed Crouch-back; not that he was crook-ſhouldered, or camel-backed: […] but from the Croſſe, anciently called a Crouch (whence Crouched Friars) which now he wore in his voyage to Jeruſalem."
Etymology
From camel + backed.
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