tented

adjective

tent·​ed ˈten-təd How to pronounce tented (audio)
1
: covered with a tent or tents
tented camps
2
: shaped like a tent

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Here's the only major caveat about staying at the tented camps: Technically, there is no on-site dining. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024 Creeping Toadflax wall covering provides a fanciful backdrop for a tented nook crafted of Ian Mankin’s Ticking Stripe in Rose. Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 27 Nov. 2024 Peony Chintz, the inaugural RAD Goods release, turned heads earlier this year in Redmond Warner’s tented loggia at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach. Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024 When an earthquake hit Japan in 1995, bringing down a church in Takatori, Ban replaced it with a Paper Church, an elegant elliptical colonnade inside a rectangular frame, topped by a tented roof. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for tented 

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tented was in 1598

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“Tented.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tented. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.

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