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Definition of Bell tent
1. Noun. A bell-shaped tent.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell Tent
Literary usage of Bell tent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. At Home in the Wilderness: Being Full Instructions how to Get Along, and to by John Keast Lord (1867)
"The more desirable form of Tent—The Lodge of the Savage—The Sibley Tent—The Bell
Tent—The Gable-ended Tent—The Miner's Tent—Half-shelter Tent^-Poles and ..."
2. The British Arms in North China and Japan: Peking 1860; Kagosima 1862 by David Field Rennie (1864)
"... Bay—Camp of the Second Brigade—The bell tent- Capture of Junks—Interview with
Sir Hope Grant—Auriferous quartz —Arrival of Lord Elgin—Sir Robert Napier. ..."
3. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1878)
"This is a conical tent, with a single pole, like the bell-tent of the English
army; it is nearly 16 feet in diameter, the pole 12 feet high; ..."
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