Crossword-Solution: BIVOUAC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bivouac | n. | The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack. |
| Bivouac | n. | An encampment for the night without tents or covering. |
| Bivouac | v. i. | To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army. |
| Bivouac | v. i. | To encamp for the night without tents or covering. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “BIVOUAC”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| temporary camp in the open air | 1 answer |
| Temporary military camp | 1 answer |
| Temporary encampment | 1 answer |
| Temporary camp | 1 answer |
| REMAIN for the night in temporary encampment without tents | 1 answer |
| Pass the night in the open air | 1 answer |
| NIGHT in temporary encampment without tents | 1 answer |
| Area in the field where troops assemble. | 1 answer |
| Camp in the open | 1 answer |
| Makeshift camp | 1 answer |
| Camp without tents | 1 answer |
| MAKE camp | 1 answer |
| Camps out | 2 answers |
| MILITARY camp | 3 answers |
| set up base | 3 answers |
| Temporary living quarters | 4 answers |
| Camper's shelter | 5 answers |
| Camp site | 5 answers |
| laager | 6 answers |
| Encamp | 8 answers |
| Encampment | 15 answers |
| BARRACKS ___ | 26 answers |
| Tent | 27 answers |
| Abode | 45 answers |
| Ensconce | 55 answers |
| ABIDING place | 64 answers |
| CAMP ___ | 66 answers |
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Sentences with BIVOUAC (5)
CHAPTER XII—MY FIRST BIVOUAC The course of the Jordan is from the north to the south, and in that direction, with very little of devious winding, it carries the shining waters of Galilee straight down into the solitudes of the Dead Sea.
They will begin to want your countenance in the camp directly, and we need hanker after no too narrow inquiries for what’s along.” So thereon we set off, Ylga and I, leaving the lights of the bivouac behind us, and she showed the way, whilst I carried my weapons ready to ward off attacks whether from beasts or from men.
The dead were buried by night in a corner of the little plateau, borne to their last bivouac on the old gun-carriages which they had stood by so often--which the men said would “sort of ease their minds.” The next day the fight was renewed, and with the same result.
Sentries patrolled the entire circumference of the bivouac, for the outlaw knew full well that he had put his head within the lion’s jaw when he had ridden thus boldly to the seat of English power.
CLXXXII That Emperour hath chosen his bivouac; The Franks dismount in those deserted tracts, Their saddles take from off their horses' backs, Bridles of gold from off their heads unstrap, Let them go free; there is enough fresh grass-- No service can they render them, save that.
Quotes with BIVOUAC (3)
Oh, it’s mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It’s one of those nights when I wander from window to window, looking for a sign. But I can’t see. Terror and a beauty insoluble are a ribband of blue woven into the fringes of garments of things both great and small. No culture explains, no bivouac offers real haven or rest. But it could be that we are not seeing something. Galileo thought that comets were an optical illusion. This is fertile grou…
That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are also created. In the Koran, Allah asks “the heaven and the earth, and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?” It’s a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms? Or what do we think of nothingness, those sickening reaches of time in e…
He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown grey before his time in discipline and in command, who had lived with his sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade blackened by powder, his forehead wrinkled by the cap, in the barracks, in the camp, in the bivouac, in the ambulance, and who after twenty years had returned fro…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2007).