camelryn.

1854 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. (ed. 4) s.v. κάμηλος ἡ κάμηλος, like ἡ ἵππος, the camels in an army, as one might say the camelry.

1883 G. A. Simcox Hist. Lat. Lit. II. vi. iv. 176 It was Crœsus who frightened his enemy's cavalry by his camelry.

1885 Times 2 July 5 General Buller and the second half of the ‘Light Camelry’..left Assouan to-day.

1885 Times 16 July 12/3 The Camelry is a new force in the British Army. It is neither, properly speaking, cavalry nor infantry..A special flag had, therefore, been invented representing a black camel rampant upon a white ground.

1882 in C. Annandale Imperial Dict.