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Cambyʹses (3 syl.)

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A pompous, ranting character in Preston’s lamentable tragedy of that name.

“Give me a cup of sack, to make mine eyes look red; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambysesʹ vein.”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Camarilla (Spanish)
Camarina
Cambalo’s Ring
Cambel
Camber
Cambria
Cambrian
Cambrian Series (in geology)
Cambric
Cambuscan
Cambyses
Camden Society
Camel
Camellia
Camelot (Somersetshire)
Camelote
Cameo
Cameron Highlanders
Cameronian Regiment
Cameronians
Camilla

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