the.com/encampment
A protest that bought a tent so it could stay and argue longer.
means A temporary settlement of tents or shelters where a group lives together, often for military, refugee, or protest purposes.
from Traces to French 'camp,' itself from Latin 'campus' meaning an open field — the same root that gives us 'campus' the college grounds. 'Encamp' bolted on the French-derived prefix 'en-' (to put into a state of) and arrived in English by the 1500s, originally describing armies settling into field quarters before the word spread to any group pitching tents with a purpose in mind.
- origin
- from camp, literally the act of camping
- legal gray zone
- often sits between free speech and trespassing law
- logistics
- requires more plumbing than ideology, usually
- media life
- becomes a noun, then a verb, then a controversy