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tented, a.|ˈtɛntɪd|
[f. tent n.1 and v.6]
1. a. Of a place: Covered with or full of tents.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 85 These Armes of mine..haue vs'd Their deerest action, in the Tented Field. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 584 Fast by the deep, Along the tented shore. 1773Wheeler in Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 343/1 On Poictou's tented plains by valour won. 1832Longfellow Coplas de Manrique lx, In tented field and bloody fray.
b. Of an encampment: consisting of tents.
1872Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 261 Urah..had collected some of the chiefs and headmen of the tribe to receive me in their tented camp. 1955Times 25 May 13/5 The cost of their fares..and their five months' stay in a tented camp in Cyprus will be about {pstlg}300 each. 1982Listener 23 and 30 Dec. 4/1 On a gentle rise..there is the tented city for the RAF Phantom and Harrier squadrons.
2. a. Formed or shaped like a tent or pavilion; made into a tent-like structure.
1747Collins Ode on Poet. Charac. 26 He, who call'd with thought to birth Yon tented sky, this laughing earth. 1825Scott Talism. vi, Weapons..were scattered about the tented apartment, or disposed upon the pillars which supported it. 1839Bailey Festus xix. (1852) 296 High as the tented mountains of the earth.
b. Having the wings when at rest meeting in a ridge over the back.
1849Helps Friends in C. ii. 187 The tented moth said suddenly to me with a clear crisp voice.
3. a. Of persons: Lodged in, or furnished with, a tent or tents. Also fig.
1811Wordsw. Epist. to Sir G. H. Beaumont 100 Wastes where now the tented Arabs dwell. 1902E. Arnold Nativity in Delineator Dec. 575 Grander than stricken fields and tented armies.
b. Of activities, etc.: held in or taking place in a tent or tents.
1898N. E. Jones Squirrel Hunters of Ohio 131 Protracted, tented, or camp-meetings increased,..becoming very popular with preachers and people. 1971Morning Star 22 June 2/5 The percentage of people taking tented holidays in Britain has gone up by 50 per cent since 1965. 1976J. Wainwright Bastard iii. 48 A circus was visiting a neighbouring town. One of the hand-to-mouth, tented circuses. 1976Time 20 Dec. 31/1 Circus Vargas, billed as the world's largest tented show. |