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Bivouac   /bˈɪvwæk/   Listen
Bivouac

noun
1.
Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers.  Synonyms: camp, cantonment, encampment.
2.
A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent.  Synonyms: campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment.
verb
(past & past part. bivouacked; pres. part. bivouacking)
1.
Live in or as if in a tent.  Synonyms: camp, camp out, encamp, tent.  "The circus tented near the town" , "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"






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"Bivouac" Quotes from Famous Books



... decided that the convoys shall be raided, or that massed troops shall be thrown into confusion, if not dispersed. The squadron is ordered to prepare for another aerial journey. The roads along which the convoys are moving are indicated upon the map, or the position of the massed troops in bivouac is similarly shown. The airmen load their machines with a full charge of bombs. When all is ready the leader ascends, followed in rapid succession by the other units, and they whirr through the air in single file. It now becomes a grim ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... capital. Babylon is a heap. Jerusalem a ruin! But this epic of the unwearied Guide still lives! Isaiah, can never die! Can a chapter die that has cheered the exile in his loneliness, that has comforted the soldier upon his bivouac, that has braced the martyr for his execution, that has given songs at midnight to the prisoners in the dungeon? Out of suffering and captivity came this song of rest and hope. At last the poet praised the eternal God for his bonds and his imprisonment. Oh, ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 (of 10) • Various

... been provided for the accommodation of each type. And above each shed was the name of the aeroplane it housed, printed in small letters. One of the first things that Mortlake and Fanning Harding proceeded to do on their arrival at this "bivouac" was to make a tour of the row of sheds in search of the Prescott machine. But to their joy, apparently, no ...
— The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise • Margaret Burnham

... reared by dedal Jack See the malt stored in many a refluent sack, In the proud cirque of Jackjohn's bivouac. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... gate of the city, an officer of the Sultan examined every slave to be sure none was a Fellatah, Mohammedan, or Jew. The Ghat caravan happened to have among its slaves a Fellatah, who was at once discovered and set free. At the first camp, says Daumas, "Each caravan established its bivouac separately, and as soon as the camels were crouched, and after having chained our Negro women by the feet and in groups of eight or ten, we forced our Negro men to aid us, with the left hand which we ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various


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