Camelbacked

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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