canvas tent
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈkænvəs tɛnt/
:
tienda de lona
- During our camping trip, we stayed in a large canvas tent that protected us from the rain.
- a green canvas tent
- a big canvas tent
- a white canvas tent
Like they just dug a hole and plopped this plastic seat over it and a little canvas tent.
- Like they just dug a hole and plopped this plastic seat over it and a little canvas tent.
Examples
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They had two ragged canvas tents and an old pickup like the farmer's.
Fiction book (1991) -
Lodging in the valley ranges from over $200 per night at the Ahwahnee to $27.50 per night for a platformed but unheated canvas tent.
Academic text (1994) -
The canvas tent is a great idea, and I'll try it going forward, and I'll come back for more great tips.
Blog text (25) -
I did get to experience that line of thunderstorms from within a canvas tent...
Blog text (12) -
P50 Army headquarters was an island of canvas tents in a sea of mud.
Fiction book (1992) -
Lois and Lucy made the fire while the others pitched the heavy canvas tents.
Fiction book (1990) -
Canvas tents were set up along flat, dry spots near the tundra, while children gathered firewood along the tide line.
Fiction book (2002) -
Five neat, square trenches are covered by dark green canvas tents that protect excavators from searing late-summer temperatures.
Academic text (2008) -
Mystic Mail, a vendor in the heart of the marketplace, hides printers and internet-ready laptops within its canvas tent.
Blog text (17) -
A big canvas tent was set up alongside the parking lot, next to acres of snow-covered lawns and a frozen duck pond with a promenade stretching into the middle of it.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
A shelter of cloth and poles that people sleep in outside
How Sturdy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tent made from canvas' is directly and compositionally derived from 'canvas' (the material) + 'tent' (the object): a material + noun noun phrase. This is a common, cross-linguistic pattern of noun modification and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Canvas tent is a tent made from a strong, heavy cloth called canvas. Because canvas was used for sails on ships and for outdoor covers, a canvas tent gives strong 'shelter' in wind and rain, so the phrase means a durable outdoor tent.