bell tent en · NOUN
Meanings
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A tent having a bell-like shape.
Bourne found himself in a bell-tent behind the huts, with the Sergeant-Major of D Company, whose prisoner he was.
1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 306:And beyond lay the pasture I had crossed on my way from the station (with a bell-tent pitched near a stream) then more fields rising towards a dark rim of hills.
1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin, published 2010, page 12:To the right rose a semicircle of old planes and a copper beech whose branches plunged to the ground and made a broad bell-tent that was cool and gloomy even at midday.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bell tents | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| bell-tent | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
no spisstelt (bell-shpaed tent)