bivouac's Usage Examples:

By evening it was expected that the whole would have crossed the Sambre, and would bivouac between the sundered allies.

It was now late and the Allies, after moving a few miles down both banks of the Nivelle, bivouacked, while Soult, taking advantage of the respite, withdrew in the night to Bayonne.

The wet state of the ground (largely composed of corn-fields) and the scattered bivouacs of the French army prevented the attack from being made at 6 A.

The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds.

, which had been so heavily engaged on the 16th, still in their bivouacs preparing to move.

Scale, i:170,000 The attack of the allies was begun by the first three columns, which moved down from their bivouacs behind the Pratzen plateau before dawn on the 2nd, towards Telnitz and Sokolnitz.

Denisov himself intended going with the esaul and Petya to the edge of the forest where it reached out to Shamshevo, to have a look at the part of the French bivouac they were to attack next day.

had bivouacked the II.

) Napoleon, falling back before the advance of the allied Austrians and Russians from Olmiitz, bivouacked west of the Goldbach, whilst the allies, holding, near Austerlitz, the junction of the roads from Olmiitz and from Hungary, formed up in the valleys east of the Pratzen heights.

were settling down into bivouac; they were still but a short march from the decisive field.

Pushing on through the night, they drove the French out of seven successive bivouacs and at length drove them over the Sambre.

We made some bivouacs (natural shelters) for our Advanced Scout Standard Award in the woods.

Synonyms:

hutment, cantonment, encampment, lager, boot camp, camp, laager, military quarters,

Antonyms:

inelastic, inanimate, dead, empty, tasteful,