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Definition of Decamped
1. decamp [v] - See also: decamp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decamped
Literary usage of Decamped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"The next night, the camp-fires were kept burning at the same place, but the army
decamped to the west The Indians, during the night, made another attack; ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"... were upon their march, but they decamped, and followed with their whole body
all the night following, ..."
3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of four thousand pounds,
and had decamped. The affair was quite recent when Jonson's Alchemist ..."
4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"of him, he would have decamped without hesitation. I therefore consider that your
Majesty's best course will be to present him with something in your ..."
5. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"The 19th, the army decamped from Hounslow Heath; the English horse and foot came
to London, and took their posts as formerly. Tis wrote from Flanders that ..."
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