Relating to or characteristic of Cambuscan, a legendary Tatar king featured in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, particularly in 'The Squire's Tale.'
From Chaucer's medieval epic 'The Canterbury Tales,' where Cambuscan is a fictional king of Tartary (Central Asia). Chaucer may have derived or invented the name to sound suitably exotic for an Eastern ruler in his 14th-century narrative.
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