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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bivouac.

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Examples

  • That night the troops again bivouacked is the same position in the woods they had held the night before.

    Illustrations of the War in America 1863

  • "bivouacked" with his tail round your office and threatened to "kill you as he would a fly."

    Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

  • You would think that Battlefield Bob had bivouacked in a foxhole a few hundred yards from an enemy position.

    Backstage Drama Max Boot 2010

  • Soldiers bivouacked inside the half-built Capitol building, the unfinished dome leaving them open to the night skies.

    Michael Giltz: The Civil War Rages On...In Books, Music and DVD Michael Giltz 2011

  • Soldiers bivouacked inside the half-built Capitol building, the unfinished dome leaving them open to the night skies.

    Michael Giltz: The Civil War Rages On...In Books, Music and DVD Michael Giltz 2011

  • They had been bivouacked on the steep slopes of the southern Krell for three days now, growing restless despite the drills and constant patrols Bartmae dispatched into the surrounding hills and hollows.

    Dust and Blood Ricardo Federico 2011

  • The National Guard had been bivouacked in and were stationed at Patton Park, right up on dix, but on the Detroit side.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • The National Guard had been bivouacked in and were stationed at Patton Park, right up on dix, but on the Detroit side.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • The National Guard had been bivouacked in and were stationed at Patton Park, right up on dix, but on the Detroit side.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • Many had very recently struggled from chrysalids in cocoons bivouacked on grass stems, and so their colours were vivid and their flights strong.

    Country diary 2010

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