bell tent

See also: bell-tent

English

Noun

bell tent (plural bell tents)

1. A tent having a bell-like shape.
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 306:

     Bourne found himself in a bell-tent behind the huts, with the Sergeant-Major of D Company, whose prisoner he was.

   • 1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin, published 2010, page 12:

     And beyond lay the pasture I had crossed on my way from the station (with a bell-tent pitched near a stream) then more fields rising towards a dark rim of hills.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     To the right rose a semicircle of old planes and a copper beech whose branches plunged to the ground and made a broad bell-tent that was cool and gloomy even at midday.

Alternative forms

• bell-tent