She was sumptuously arrayed in a loose-sleeved camorra of grey velvet that was heavy with costly furs; above the lenza of fine linen on her head gleamed the gold thread of a jewelled net, and at her waist a girdle of surpassing richness, all set with gems, glowed like a thing of fire in the bright sunshine.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
Her camorra, too, was open, and in her girdle there were gems for all to see.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
He gives as the reason for this unusually high percentage of cases observed by him the fact that two-thirds of the inmates of the prison belonged to the camorra, an organization whose members are gleaned from the lowest and most degenerate stratum of society, and in whom the tendency for deception and fraud in any form is highly developed.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck