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kemp

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kemp [kɛmp]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a coarse hair or strand of hair, esp one in a fleece that resists dyeing
[from Old Norse kampr beard, moustache]
kempy  adj
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Philip agreed, and it happened that Mildred knew of a boarding-house at Kemp Town where they would not be charged more than twenty-five shillings a week each.
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And as I fall to fuddled sleep I hear youth crying, as Harry Kemp heard it:
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