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  • noun Plural form of camelback.

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  • Conceived by architects at Graft for Make it Right — the Hurricane Katrina-inspired and Brad Pitt-led foundation that focuses on community planning and redevelopment — the duplex. pdf proposal reveals a home inspired by camelbacks, a design methodology that historically allowed residents to easily add a second story or utilize extra roof space.

    Sustainable Luxury Living : Aura at Camelback 2009

  • I myself try to remember to use the new steel water bottle, and fill my kids' camelbacks even when they leak, which helps because we like to walk outside of cities where the cows tend to poop in the water source.

    Public water and charter schools doyle 2009

  • It is unsanitary the way Cuban people without cars are now packed like anchovies in their buses, especially the notorious camelbacks in Havana.

    Marvin Kitman: It's the Economy, El Stupido 2008

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    Popularity in the 21st Century barbylon 2004

  • But the supply sergeant sent a water truck down just in time to get back so the Marines could fill their canteens and camelbacks and they had been working and spent the day yesterday scouring the countryside in their security mission, got fired on once by somebody in a field.

    CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003 2003

  • Then the same necessities made the early French and Norman builders push up into the air those gaunt, quaint old camelbacks, with spindles or pinnacles astride.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

  • Experienced Kayakers not only wear PFD's, but helmets, water shoes, gloves and camelbacks.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2010

  • We all had camelbacks and extra waters in a few backpacks.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

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