Helen Fenton

Camisado: Definition and part of speech

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Camisado

  1. n. An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.
  2. n. A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Camisard: Definition and part of speech

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Camisard

  1. n. One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; — so called from the peasant’s smock (camise) which they wore.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cambium: Definition and part of speech

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Cambium

  1. n. A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
  2. n. A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cambrasine: Definition and part of speech

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Cambrasine

  1. n. A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.