What does camelestrian mean?
Camelestrian means A person who rides a camel..
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A person who rides a camel..
1856, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, The Sweet South, London: Printed for Private Circulation: Volume 2, Chapter 14, p. 173, We met several camelestrians on our road, and horsemen and assmen; and the scenery in many parts was very pretty.
Both were mounted upon camels. One, perched upon his high and narrow saddle, with his feet upon the animal’s neck, after the usual manner of “camelestrians.”
In Khedive Avenue [Khartoum] […] is a statue by E. Onslow Ford, of General Gordon on an Indian camel. So far as I know this is the world’s only camelestrian statue.
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Camelestrian means A person who rides a camel..
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1856, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, The Sweet South, London: Printed for Private Circulation: Volume 2, Chapter 14, p. 173, We met several camelestrians on our road, and horsemen and assmen; and the scenery in many parts was very pretty.
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