What does campery mean?
Campery means Ostentatiously effeminate behaviour from a man..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Ostentatiously effeminate behaviour from a man..
But she made no secret of her disappointment at our lack of campery.
Justin Welby said in an interview with Huw Edwards that “the biggest challenge was that the whole ceremony didn’t look like Gilbert and Sullivan”. It is fair to say that this coronation steered well clear of the campery of comic opera.
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Campery means Ostentatiously effeminate behaviour from a man..
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But she made no secret of her disappointment at our lack of campery.
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