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Circus tent   /sˈərkəs tɛnt/   Listen
Circus tent

noun
1.
A canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance.  Synonyms: big top, round top, top.  "They had the big top up in less than an hour"






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"Circus tent" Quotes from Famous Books



... face with the handkerchief which he had won in the Jack Horner pie at the church sociable. It had pictures of pink and blue ducks and geese on it, and it looked very small beside the handkerchief with which the Giant was mopping his face. That was as big as a circus tent. Marmaduke himself looked very small beside the stranger. When the little boy stretched out his hand, he just reached the nail ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... placed in the form of a triangle. Thus it was an easy matter to roll the big machine from the shed to the level field beyond. Then Tom ran back and procured some stakes, several ropes, and a hammer, and soon he had the biplane staked fast to the ground, after the manner of a small circus tent. ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer



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