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circus tent

n. a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance; "he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent"; "they had the big top up in less than an hour" [syn: big top, round top, top]

Usage examples of "circus tent".

The tent may have looked like a circus tent, but the bleachers and stairs were permanent.

He was hauling steadily on it-and along the wire, hanging neatly down from it, came a small trapeze swing-the one that Toni used each night when he swung high up in the circus tent, doing his tricks!

He was hauling steadily on itand along the wire, hanging neatly down from it, came a small trapeze swingthe one that Toni used each night when he swung high up in the circus tent, doing his tricks!

Her eyes began to sweep the circus tent, just like his, looking both for the bomb and at the victims.

He'd stopped for a breather and was absently looking at the circus tent.

The one at the top was of Emmett Kelly, with his white-painted downturned mouth, his battered hat and enormous flopping shoes, running toward the circus tent with a bucket of water.

Bit of a cop-out ending though, having the hero fall through the roof of a circus tent and then just wake up in his own bed.

Two men stepped out of the huge circus tent that took up one entire corner.

Around the rustic table placed in the center of a patched circus tent where the delegates sat were the last officers who were faithful to Colonel Aureliano Buendí.

The bed had been jerry-rigged to accommodate his wing membranes, which Flint decided bore a striking resemblance to a circus tent that had been sewed up and patched together once too often.

Just before he faded away into the night, he glanced at the circus tent.

It fits like a circus tent, and a woman's head is hidden away in it like the man's who prompts the singers from his tin shed in the stage of an opera.

On Monday night, around dusk, I went back to the big circus tent that had been the scene, just 20 hours earlier, of MOBE's Counter-Inaugural Ball.