tentage

[ten-tij]

noun

1. tents collectively; equipment or supply of tents.

ˈtentage

/ ˈtɛntɪdʒ /

noun

1. tents collectively

2. a supply of tents or tenting equipment

Word History and Origins

Origin of tentage¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; tent ¹ + -age

Example Sentences

Esper told reporters at the Pentagon the 11 ballistic missiles that hit al-Asad damaged tentage, a parking lot, taxiways, and a helicopter.

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The damage at the bases was largely contained to “tentage, taxiways, the parking lot, damaged helicopter, things like that, nothing I would describe as major,” Esper said.

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Schoening had signed on with Fischer’s Mountain Madness group not because he needed a guide to lead him up the peak but to avoid the mammoth hassle of arranging for a permit, oxygen, tentage, provisions, Sherpa support, and other logistical details.

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"Everyone has been trying to crack the problem of humanitarian emergency tentage for a long time," says Tom Corsellis, director of NGO Shelter Centre, who has worked on co-ordinating refugee camps in Haiti, Sri Lanka and the Balkans.

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Whatever the Paleolithic sense of cosmos may have been, it's safe to say that they had well-made objects for everyday utility: clothes, tentage, tools.

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