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n. a tent used to shelter people eating in a group, especially in a military or working setting.
Usage examples of "mess tent".
The best time for a Sighting seems to be at around Sunset, just as the Axmen are leaving off work and heading for the Mess Tent, the Wind changing, here in Pennsylvania, as between this World and the Next, when one may catch him flitting across the Visto behind the Party, back at the edge of Visibility, black Cloak, white Wig, black Hat, white Stock, black Breeches and so forth, on foot, carrying a three-legged Staff, with an Instrument of some kind affix'd.
There was never any conversation in the mess tent when Major Major was present.
Bad enough that the two of you started this-but in public, in a common mess tent!
Bad enough that the two of you started thisbut in public, in a common mess tent!
Afterward, all four platoons moved their gear from their own company areas to a new, temporary area with its own mess tent.
He turned up in the mess tent once or twice, and had coffee with her, and once he sat with her long enough for her to inhale dinner, on a ten-minute break before she went back on duty in the tent.
She had the sass of a divorce lawyer, coming bursting into his tent to renew the argument he thought he had finalized in the mess tent over breakfast.
By the time they reached the mess tent, only iron will kept her from tearing the bandage from her shoulder and scratching the wound bloody.
I don't think anybody fainted and I don't think anybody quite got sick, even though most of us didn't eat much dinner that night and I've never heard the mess tent so quiet.
Behind them was the larger mess tent, and down below, beyond the last of the staff tents, the small corral for the horses.