decamp

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Both are buried at Addlestone; so is Fanny Kemble's mother, Mrs. Charles Kemble, who as Mademoiselle Decamp had delighted French theatres.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

Mr. Decamp was interviewed by Mr. Herndon regarding Lincoln's religious views in July, 1887.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.

My mother was the daughter of Captain Decamp, an officer in one of the armies that revolutionary France sent to invade republican Switzerland.

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

Decamp, de-kamp′, v.i. to go away, esp. secretly.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Another of Lincoln's most intimate Springfield friends was John Decamp.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.