1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus v. f. 75 Dromedary camels that were wounderfull swift.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 739 [He] had scaped..flying vpon a drumbledary cammell.
1846 H. H. Wilson II. vii. 301 He moved against them with the third cavalry, the dromedary corps, and two companies of infantry.
1880 R. D. Blackmore III. v. 73 The dromedary humps of certain hills.