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The Sleeping House Party choose

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[Aus] E. Lambert Sleeping House Party 195: [of a dress] [T]he wickedest piece of campery I have ever seen [Simes:DLSS].
at campery (n.) under camp, n.2
[Aus] E. Lambert Sleeping House Party 12: They were camp, as a coarse common army friend of mine once put it, as a row of tents [GS].
at camp as a row of tents (adj.) under camp, adj.
[US] E. Lambert Sleeping House Party in DSUE (1984).
at flakers, adj.
[Aus] E. Lambert Sleeping House Party 194: Tony and Peter came in next, very gay, arm-in-arm [Simes:DLSS].
at gay, adj.
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