bell tent

plural bell tents · alternative bell-tent

1. A tent having a bell-like shape.

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

   1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 306

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   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.

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

   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.

   2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN