bell tent

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bell tent (plural bell tents)

  1. A tent having a bell-like shape.
    • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 306:
      Bourne found himself in a bell-tent behind the huts, with the Sergeant-Major of D Company, whose prisoner he was.
    • 1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin, published 2010, page 12:
      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.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty [], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      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.

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