Camelot

proper nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈkæm.əˌlɒt//
Canada//ˈkæm.əˌlɑt//
Canada/[ˈkɛəm.əˌlɑt]/
Australia//ˈkæm.əˌlɔt//

A mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.

proper noun

1
A mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.
2
The administration and surrounding mystique of President John F. Kennedy.
Of course you want to fund all these programs, and you want to fund all these activist campaigns. Of course you want that. The term “Camelot” was never used, but there was a Camelot feeling to it at the time that people must have felt in the early ’60s in the same way.

Etymology

First attested in Old French as Camaalot in Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. In the US politics sense a reference to the contemporary musical Camelot (1960), associated with the Kennedy era.

Came · A surname.camel · A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of…Camel · A river in Cornwall, England, which flows into the Atlantic…

Camelot · A mythical location in England and the stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.

camera · A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.Camera · A surname.cameraman · Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

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