tentage
Americannoun
noun
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tents collectively
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a supply of tents or tenting equipment
Etymology
Origin of tentage
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
To St. Louis swelterers for seven summers Aloe Plaza has offered no refreshment beyond the discouraged tentage of a few trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no tentage, except the shelter-halves which some of the men had brought with them.
From History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition by John H. (John Henry) Parker
Consequently regiments were put forth with only such amounts of rations and tentage as they could carry upon their backs.
From History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition by John H. (John Henry) Parker
Behind them came a third, a big quartermaster's wagon, drawn by six mules and loaded with tentage and rations.
From Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. by Charles King
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