cameleopard

English

Etymology

See camelopard. In this spelling, influenced by English leopard.

Noun

cameleopard (plural cameleopards)

1. Alternative spelling of camelopard.
   • 1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Witch of Atlas”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 31:

     And first the spotted cameleopard came, / And then the wise and fearless elephant; […]