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Meaning of bell tent | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A tent having a bell-like shape.

Examples

“Bourne found himself in a bell-tent behind the huts, with the Sergeant-Major of D Company, whose prisoner he was.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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