Wall tent Wall tent A wall tent, also known as an outfitter tent, safari tent, or sheep herder tent is a type of tent that has four straight vertical walls that provide more headroom than traditional pyramid-shaped tents. Wall tents are typically made of a heavy canvas and are used by hunters because they can accommodate several people and their supplies. Wall tents are suitable as a four-season tent, as they are able to accommodate a wood stove. Wall tents are commonly used in Civil War reenactments, and, in recent years, have also become used for glamping. Frames may be either internal
Portmanteau more existing words that all relate to a singular concept. A portmanteau also differs from a compound, which does not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. For instance, "starfish" is a compound, not a portmanteau, of "star" and "fish"; whereas a hypothetical portmanteau of "star" and "fish" might be "stish". The word "portmanteau" was first used in this sense by Lewis Carroll in the book "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in "Jabberwocky", where "slithy" means "slimy and lithe" and "mimsy" is "miserable