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Cambuscan

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Cambuscan, a corruption of the name Genghis Khan, used in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Cambynskan. Milton gives it this form in Il Penseroso: -

"Or call up him that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold."

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