Not until the seventeenth century did the English, who fixated on the giraffe's camel-ish shape and leopard-ish coloring, stop calling it a camelopard. |
The guanaco, a quadruped allied to the lama and with some resemblance to the camelopard, is found in considerable numbers. |
Some authors have proved the mildness and docility of the camelopard, while others represent it as incapable of being tamed. |
Then she rose with dignity, and walked like a camelopard all down the room on the side opposite to Mr. Oldfield. |
In 1827, King George IV was ridiculed, riding on his new gift of a giraffe with his mistress, in The Camelopard or a New Hobby. |
This was not the case with the camelopard that had got loose and fled among the foremost. |