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dromedaries
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What does dromedaries mean?
noun
- plural of dromedary
- 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.
For his ambassadors take their dromedaries or their horses, and they prick in all that ever they may toward one of the inns.
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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.
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.
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.