camp bed

noun

1. a light folding cot or bed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of camp bed¹

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

Three men seized him, took him to the camp bed and laid him there, letting his legs hang down.

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Thatcher, stretched out on a camp bed at the side of the room, chewing a cigar, grunted.

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I found no place of entertainment but a bare inn where I could set up my camp bed and sleep.

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And for most of the time between one o'clock and his rising hour of five he had lain in his narrow camp-bed and thought.

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He showed Waverley directly to a half-ruinous apartment where, however, there was a small camp bed.

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