Meaning & use
bivouac
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A temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.
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The climbers set up a bivouac on a narrow ledge just below the summit.
Exhausted troops made a hasty bivouac in the forest before dawn.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French (ultimately from a Swiss-German military term for night patrol), the word can also be used as a verb meaning to camp out temporarily.
Words with a similar meaning
encampmentcampsite
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To camp outdoors temporarily without full shelter.
The scouts bivouacked under a rock overhang when the storm hit.
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