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tent-town 
n. a town of tents and other temporary shelters such as one might find near a gold strike.
- 1923 So he came in touch with all the vice, wretchedness and stark tragedy abounding in the tent-towns and construction camps.
- 1965 . . . near this town of acculturated Indians there is a tent-town of marginal people and transients.
- 1923 So he came in touch with all the vice, wretchedness and stark tragedy abounding in the tent-towns and construction camps.