deloul

D2E1L1O1U1L1

noun

A fast-running dromedary camel.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

noundeloul (plural delouls)

plural delouls

  1. archaicA fast-running dromedary camel.

    We had a seven hours' ride on the delouls, leaving the caravan to follow, to the large ruin of Abou Maria.

    1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

Origin

Probably of Bedouin Arabic origin.

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