Word of the Week
S01 E11: Bivouac
Season 1 Episode 11 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
No shelter for the night? Don’t worry, there’s a word for that.
Here’s a word that is most often associated with the military, but it doesn’t have to be. It can be a noun or a verb, and it likes to sleep under the stars.
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Word of the Week
S01 E11: Bivouac
Season 1 Episode 11 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Here’s a word that is most often associated with the military, but it doesn’t have to be. It can be a noun or a verb, and it likes to sleep under the stars.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(reverent orchestral music) - [Narrator] The word of the week is bivouac, which has military origins and is usually applied to a temporary encampment with little or no shelter.
Nowadays, it can refer to any temporary casual shelter.
You could just as easily say, "We camped for the night," but it sounds more adventurous to say, "We bivouacked under the stars."
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