Definition of "dromedarie"
dromedarie
noun
plural dromedaries
Obsolete spelling of dromedary
Quotations
The duke in his schelde and dreches no lengere, / Drawes hym a dromedarie, with dredfulle knyghtez; [...](please add an English translation of this quotation)]
, new edition (in Middle English), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1871, page 87, lines 2940–2941
The Dromedarie, Camell, Horſe, and Aſſe, / For loade and carriage doth a Sheepe ſurpaſſe: [...]
1630, John Taylor, “Taylors Pastorall, being Both Historicall and Satyricall. […]”, in All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-poet. […], London: […] Iames Boler; […], page 52; republished in The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet […] (Publications of the Spenser Society; no. 2), [Manchester]: […] Spenser Society, 1868, page 536, column 2
[T]he Dromedarie [...] who is marvellous ſwift, and will run an hundred miles in a day; but the Germanes call a dull and ſlow man a Dromedary, [...]
1650, Edward Leigh, “Δρόμος [Drómos]”, in Critica Sacra in Two Parts: The First Containing Observations on All the Radices, or Primitive Hebrevv Words of the Old Testament, in Order Alphabetical. […] The Second Philologicall and Theologicall Observations upon All the Greek Words of the New Testament, in Order Alphabetical. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill […], page 74, column 2
I went to see a Dromedarie, a very monstrous beaste, much like the Camel but larger.
1651 February 3 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, page 249