camp bed

noun

Origin of camp bed

First recorded in 1680–90

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When you pop your sleeping bag or mattress pad on top of one of these clever camp beds, insects will pass below you, instead of inside your bedding.
Stretch out under the stars on the best camping cot | Irena Collaku | June 18, 2021 | Popular-Science
This steel-frame camp bed features a foam mattress for extra cushioning and folds up easily for storage.
Stretch out under the stars on the best camping cot | Irena Collaku | June 18, 2021 | Popular-Science
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

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