Meaning of bell tent | Babel Free

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.”

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