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camille
/kəˈmil/
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What does camille mean?
proper noun
- A unisex given name from French.
- (figuratively) A courtesan (from the English translations of La Dame aux Camélias)
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/kəˈmil/
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His profound jealousy of other orators or men of letters, such as Camille Desmoulins, caused their death.
By what right should the sword of Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins?
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"Camille is an artist," we are told; "she has genius, and she leads an exceptional life such as could not be judged in the same way as an ordinary existence."
We may hope hereafter to understand something about the causes of such occasional modifications, especially through the study of monstrosities: hence the labours of experimentalists, such as those of M. Camille Dareste, are full of promise for the future.
Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name ‘Camille.’