camp bed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of camp bed
First recorded in 1680–90
Example Sentences
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"At first I thought I would take some music and books," he said, sitting wearily on a camp bed in a dirty grey T-shirt.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Box springs lay heaped in a pile beneath a folding camp bed, freed by the flames.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024
Christian Fostitschenko sat near his camp bed at an evacuation centre in Salles, southwestern France.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022
From a camp bed in a foreign country, the 40-year-old bookeeper thinks about restarting her and her children’s lives from square one.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
“Hi, Harry,” she said, as he sat down on his camp bed.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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