See also: camelot

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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.

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Camelot

  1. (Arthurian legend) A mythical location in England. The stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.
  2. (US politics) The administration and surrounding mystique of President John F. Kennedy.
    • 2025 January 17, Ross Douthat, quoting Marc Andreessen, “How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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French

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Inherited from Middle French Camalot, from Old French Camaalot.

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  • IPA(key): /kam.lo/, /kam.lɔt/

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Camelot ?

  1. (Arthurian legend) Camelot

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /kameˈlot/ [ka.meˈlot̪]
  • Rhymes: -ot
  • Syllabification: Ca‧me‧lot

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Camelot m

  1. (Arthurian mythology) Camelot