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noun temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
noun a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
verb live in or as if in a tent
originUnadapted borrowing from French bivouac (earlier biouac, bivac), from Alemannic German Biiwacht (“reinforcements of guard or town watch”), from bii- + Wacht (“watch, guard”).
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