Camberwell
a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
Contemporary Examples
Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance Tim Teeman September 29, 2014
Historical Examples
The Doctor’s Wife M. E. Braddon
A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle
Ainslee’s, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph C. Lincoln
Woodland Tales Ernest Seton-Thompson
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
500 of the Best Cockney War Stories Various
Utopia of Usurers and other Essays Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 Various
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a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood. Historical Examples Sons and Fathers Harry Stillwell Edwards […]
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a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood. noun (pl) -biums, -bia (-bɪə) (botany) a meristem […]