tent bed

noun

1. a field bed having a canopy in the form of a tent.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tent bed¹

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

General Gorgaud slept on a small tent bed with green silk hangings, which Napoleon had had with him in all his campaigns.

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The next thing I would see was a small tent-bed, with the whitest of curtains, and enchanting fringes of white ball-tassels.

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Again he had quiet nights in his old tent-bed in the brothers' room.

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One of them leads the first horse, which carries two large sacks of straw with my tent bed between them.

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A tent-bed, hung with green curtains, stood between the two doors.

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