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Tent

noun

A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs). Synonym: collapsible shelter.

A web that resembles a tent or carpet.

verb

(past & past part. tented; pres. part. tenting)

Live in or as if in a tent. Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp. "The circus tented near the town" , "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

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"Tent" Quotes from Famous Books

... sight; Behind the door she hides her face, Next time at distance eyes the lace: She now can all his terrors stand, Nor from his squeeze withdraws her hand, She plays familiar in his arms, And every soldier hath his charms; >From tent to tent she spreads her flame; For ...

— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]

... From a neighbouring tent came the sounds of a creaking camp-bed, two feet striking the ground with violence, and ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... sat by the stove in the men's tent, while the others were in the cabin playing penny-ante with the cook (a sodden brute who toadies to the Bowens, and sulks with John because he objected to our hiring the fellow—an objection which I sustained, hence his logical spite includes me). John was melting pine gum and elk tallow ...

— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

... "A tent being placed on the stage for Henry the Sixth; he in it asleep. To him the lieutenant, and a pursuivant (R. Cowley, Jo. Duke), and one warder (R. Pallant). To them Pride, Gluttony, Wrath, and Covetousness at one door; at another door Envy, Sloth, and ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli

... the dressing-tent with a period of confusion in which horses were crowded together as thick as they could stand, while the riders dressed and mounted in frantic haste, for to be late meant to be fined. At last the ring-master clapped ...

— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

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