trailer camp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trailer camp
An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Most of the rest were dumped at Winona trailer camp that second weekend in May.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020
Frank Kawana was 12 when his family moved into the trailer camp in El Segundo, which sat near North American Aviation’s B-25 bomber plant.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020
Temporary housing in the Winona trailer camp in Burbank, Calif., in 1946.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020
He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed�left wing first�into an open field, a mile short of the runway.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m cutting classes for the afternoon,” the trailer camp girl replied, pausing.
From The Wishing Well by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)
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