Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
chameleon .
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Examples
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Sir Toady Lion as low comedian ( "camelion" he called it) performed numerous antics as Daft Davie Gellatley.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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He's a camelion – he'll take any form it takes to get reelected no matter what he believes in or what his constituents think of him.
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The return of the cashmere camelion - ready to say whatever he thinks will get him elected. kilo charlie
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Don't you edit these postings? and Hillary is not Goldilocks, she's a cold calculating camelion (sp?) - she goes with the political winds (like her tragic vote for the Iraq war) and she tells different groups what they want to hear.
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With Dean, he seemed to be a camelion and, for example, it's well known that he kept changing his positions as he blogged in an attempt to "be one of you ..."
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I seem to contradict what I said in the same letter: for he is a perfect camelion; or rather more variable than the camelion; for that, it is said, cannot assume the red and the white; but this man can.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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~I am kind of like a camelion in that I can often times change to fit into my surroundings.
rainandfire Diary Entry rainandfire 2001
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Yet the poem resolutely commits itself to that most un-camelion-like of lines and verse forms in early Romanticism, the ten-syllable line of blank verse.
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Negative Capability and the (woman) poet of Beachy Head: In his otherwise buoyant account of the "camelion poet" who has no identity but who becomes whatever his imagination lites upon, Keats registers a slight quantum of discomfort in his experience of a gathering of friends when -- having entered into their beings -- no longer has a self to "come home" to.
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Below it, on the window sill, near the wall, with head erect, and its little basilisk eyes upturned towards the lovely fly, crouched a camelion lizard; its beautiful body, when I first looked at it, was a bright sea -- green.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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