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camp | Word of the Day
May 07, 2019
camp
[kamp]
noun
1.
something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, or self-consciously artificial and extravagant.
verb (used without object)
1.
to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner.
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QUOTES
Indeed the essence of
Camp
is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
-- Susan Sontag, "Notes on 'Camp',"
Partisan Review
, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1964
ORIGIN
Many explanations have been offered, but the etymology of
camp
"something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, or self-consciously artificial and extravagant" remains obscure. The term entered English in the early 1900s.
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