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 and flimsy". Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the practice of combining words in various ways: In his introduction to "The Hunting of the Snark", Carroll uses "portmanteau" when discussing lexical selection: In then-contemporary English, a portmanteau was a suitcase that opened into two equal sections. The etymology of the word is the French "porte-manteau", from "porter", "to carry", and "manteau", "cloak" (from Old French "mantel", from Latin "mantellum"). In modern French, a "porte-manteau" is a clothes valet, a coat-tree or similar article of furniture for hanging up jackets, hats, umbrellas and the like. An occasional synonym for "portmanteau word" is