I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But although I said I was reasonably Spartan, this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times.
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Now it's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents.
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On descent he met Wanda at 8,300 metres and helped her arrange a bivouac .
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That evening the bivouac fires of the two armies were a scant mile apart.
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The sun dropped below the horizon, the minutes ticked by and an involuntary bivouac began to seem a possibility.
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Their bivouac in the rain and snow was less comfortable than at their former stations, where they had constructed some shelter.
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Their bayonets flashed through the obscurity, lighted up by the bivouac fires.
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They had bivouacs, sleeping bags and cold-weather anoraks.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is now an acceptable place to bivouac or just to break for lunch in bad weather.
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Mayor Art Agnos invited the homeless to bivouac in Civic Center for more than a year while he chewed on the problem.
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Participants with experience of the wilderness will be welcome to bivouac through the night.