Cameron
noun
Julia Margaret, 1815–79, English photographer, born in India.
Cameronian
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a word derived from
Cameron.
Example Sentences
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Besides the lure of being the first to find something new, there are Cameronian motives, too.
From Economist ● Nov. 8, 2012
Shrewd, he secured a manager to aid him to hold onto the $150,000 he had won on Cameronian.
From Time Magazine Archive
A grocer in Hopkinsville, Ky., who paid a dollar for his ticket and won $136,399 on Cameronian.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Keep it out of the way of your children,” said a Cameronian divine, when he lent it to my father, “lest ye find them, as I found mine, reading it on the Sabbath.”
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
He was sent to the parish school of Kirkton, and afterwards placed under the tutorship of a Cameronian clergyman, in Denholm, reputed as a classical scholar.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
