[f. TENT sb.1 + BED sb.] a. A small and low bed used in a tent; a camp bed. b. A bed having an arched canopy and covered sides. Hence tent-bedstead.
1752. H. Walpole, Lett. (1846), II. 432. Offered her a tent-bed, for fear of bugs in the inns.
1802. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), VI. 9. His daughter could be constantly with him, and sleep in a tent-bed in his apartment.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xliv. One of the bed-posts of a sort of tent-bed was broken down.
1827. Roberts, Voy. Centr. Amer., 231. [I found him lying] in an English tent-bed.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xi. In the other stood an old tent bed-stead.
