camp bed
noun
a light folding cot or bed.
Origin of camp bed
1First recorded in 1680–90
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How to use camp bed in a sentence
Three men seized him, took him to the camp bed and laid him there, letting his legs hang down.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de BalzacThatcher, stretched out on a camp bed at the side of the room, chewing a cigar, grunted.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonI found no place of entertainment but a bare inn where I could set up my camp bed and sleep.
Silver Chimes in Syria | W. S. NelsonAnd 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.
Long Live the King | Mary Roberts RinehartHe showed Waverley directly to a half-ruinous apartment where, however, there was a small camp bed.
Red Cap Tales | Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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