Cameliard

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English

Two knights fighting at Cameliard in Howard Pyle’s illustration in his Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)

Etymology

From Middle English Camelerde.

Proper noun

Cameliard

  1. (Arthurian legend) The kingdom of the young Princess Guinevere, ruled by her father, King Leodegrance.
    • 1883 October 3, Trophonius , “Turf Cuttings”, in Fun, volume XXXVIII, number 960, London: W. Lay, →OCLC, page 141, column 1:
      Let those who choose bestow belief, / And bet their all on Lowland Chief, / Let those who disbelieve the Bard / Sublimely back Cameliard, / Sublimely go and lose.
    • 2007, Sarah McKerrigan , chapter 1, in Knight’s Prize (The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch; 3), New York, N.Y.: Warner Forever, →ISBN, page 1:
      Since the Knights of Cameliard had insinuated themselves into the household of Rivenloch Castle, she never knew when a Norman warrior might barge into her bedchamber.
    • 2018 March 15, Javier Iván Piña Cruz, translated by Jared Landon, chapter IV, in Claws and Fangs: A Race’s Curse, →ISBN:
      Four years passed and the king decided to send his daughter to Cameliard, where King Sagrad reigned, an old friend of his family.

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