a. [f. TENT sb.1 and v.6]
1. Of a place: Covered with or full of tents.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. iii. 85. These Armes of mine … haue vs’d Their deerest action, in the Tented Field.
1705. Blackmore, Eliza, IV. 45.
| The Merchants to their gainful Burse prefer | |
| The Tented Field, to learn from mighty Vere | |
| To settle War-like Factories abroad, | |
| Who may their Fleets with glorious Laurels load. |
1725. Pope, Odyss., IV. 584. Fast by the deep, Along the tented shore.
1773. Wheeler, in Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 343/1. On Poictou’s tented plains by valour won.
1832. Longf., Coplas de Manrique, lx. In tented field and bloody fray.
2. Formed or shaped like a tent or pavilion; made into a tent-like structure.
1747. Collins, Ode on Poet. Charac., 26. He, who call’d with thought to birth Yon tented sky, this laughing earth.
1825. Scott, Talism., vi. Weapons … were scattered about the tented apartment, or disposed upon the pillars which supported it.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xix. (1852), 296. High as the tented mountains of the earth.
b. Having the wings when at rest meeting in a ridge over the back.
1849. Helps, Friends in C., II. 187. The tented moth said suddenly to me with a clear crisp voice.
3. Of persons: Lodged in, or furnished with, a tent or tents. Also fig.
1811. Wordsw., Epist. to Sir G. H. Beaumont, 100. Wastes where now the tented Arabs dwell.
1902. Sir E. Arnold, Nativity, in Delineator, Dec., 575. Grander than stricken fields and tented armies.
