camp bed

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noun
  1. a light folding cot or bed.

Origin of camp bed

1
First 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 Balzac
  • Thatcher, stretched out on a camp bed at the side of the room, chewing a cigar, grunted.

    A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
  • I 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. Nelson
  • 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.

    Long Live the King | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • He showed Waverley directly to a half-ruinous apartment where, however, there was a small camp bed.

    Red Cap Tales | Samuel Rutherford Crockett