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Origin of pup tent

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Words nearby pup tent

puppy, puppy dog, puppy fat, puppyfoot, puppy love, pup tent, pupu, pur, Puracé, Purana, Purbach

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How to use pup tent in a sentence

Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.
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While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.
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But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.
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Santorum embraced a more pragmatic big-tent approach to these candidates.
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The smaller “Flood Wall Street” eschewed the big-tent approach and focused on radical politics and aggressive activism.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for pup tent

pup tent

noun

another name for shelter tent

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