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dromedaries

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What does dromedaries mean?

noun

  1. plural of dromedary
  2. plural of dromedarie (“obsolete spelling of dromedary”)

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Of the two dromedaries which I had obtained for this journey, I mounted one myself, and put Dthemetri on the other.
Alexander William KinglakeEothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastProject Gutenberg ebook #282
For his ambassadors take their dromedaries or their horses, and they prick in all that ever they may toward one of the inns.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782
More book examples (3)
For the barbarians who dwelt on the mountains overlooking the desert, amazed at the multitude of fires they saw, sent messengers upon dromedaries to acquaint Peucestes.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
To crown their discomforts they were again attached by the Bedouin, whom they dispersed only after a stubborn fight and with the loss of several dromedaries.
Thomas WrightThe Life of Sir Richard BurtonProject Gutenberg ebook #4315
Phœbe, on entering the shop, beheld there the already familiar face of the little devourer—if we can reckon his mighty deeds aright—of Jim Crow, the elephant, the camel, the dromedaries, and the locomotive.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #77