tented

[ ten-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of tented¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; tent ¹ + -ed ³

By 6:15, the tented concession stands have run out of sandwiches and chips and are only selling granola bars and soda.

It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash.

Was it in the tented field With crash of sword on shield, While backward meaner champions reeled And loud the tom-tom pealed?

Snake looked up as the great wings tented over him, hiding him momentarily.

And you are not a soldier—one of the ten that left the School Board for the more or less tented field?

Like welkin-shaking thunder wakes a deep and deadly sound, Clank and din of warlike weapons burst upon the tented ground!

All able-bodied men should seize a musket and march to the tented field.

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