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bell tent

British  

noun

  1. a cone-shaped tent having a single central supporting pole

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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And, more recently, a roundabout in Darlington, where he lived undisturbed in a bell tent surrounded by hedges for 10 months.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2020

The property has been in her family for five generations, since 1884; she and her husband, Albrecht Köhler, thought to put it on Hipcamp after returning from Burning Man with an extra canvas bell tent.

From The New Yorker Dec. 2, 2019

He had to sleep in a bell tent with seven others, radiating like spokes of a wheel from the centre tent pole.

From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by Nasmith, George G. (George Gallie)

I will lend you one—a large bell tent.

From Through stained glass by Chamberlain, George Agnew

A bell tent, just holds a patrol nicely.

From Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

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