tent-town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a town of tents and other temporary shelters such as one might find near a gold strike.

Quotations

1923

So he came in touch with all the vice, wretchedness and stark tragedy abounding in the tent-towns and construction camps.

1965

. . . near this town of acculturated Indians there is a tent-town of marginal people and transients.