English Explanatory Dictionary

cigarette camp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a number of temporary U.S. Army "tent cities" situated principally around the French ports of Le Havre and Marseilles following their captures by Allied Forces in the wake of the Allied D-Day invasion in June 1944 and Operation Dragoon in August 1944. They were named after popular cigarette brands.

Word forms

cigarette camp cigarette camps
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