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Definition of Canvas tent
1. Noun. A tent made of canvas fabric.
Specialized synonyms: Big Top, Circus Tent, Round Top, Top, Field Tent, Sibley Tent, Wall Tent
Generic synonyms: Collapsible Shelter, Tent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canvas Tent
Literary usage of Canvas tent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"... learned to build houses or have adopted the modern canvas tent of the white man.
Various Forms. The simplest form of canvas tent follows the pattern ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1904)
"JC CLARK: I should like to ask Dr. Macdonald's opinion as to whether the canvas
tent Is in any way superior to the board tent. ..."
3. Liquor Prohibition by Archibald Douglas Dabney (1920)
"... but includes any other "place" such as a place walled off by a canvas tent in
a street; and a corporation organized for a legitimate purpose, ..."
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