Obs. rare1. [a. ON. kamp-r beard, moustache.] pl. Whiskers (of a cat); stout bristly hairs: cf. KEMP sb.

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c. 1450.  Henryson, Mor. Fab., 47. Hee [the Cat] lay so still, the Myce were not affeird … Some tirled at the Campes of his beird.

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