bivouac \ BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak \ , noun; 1. An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter. intransitive verb: 1. To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter.

Rob had made his emergency bivouac  just below the South Summit.

-- David Breashears, "Death on the mountain", The Observer , March 30, 2003

 

The real word of the day today is bivouac. Lucre was, ashamedly, yesterday's word but I still wanted to write about it. What can I say about bivouac... it sounds like a sound effect from a comic book, it has been in many war movies from the fifties and sixties, and it brings to mind a vehicle from a Dr. Seuss story. "Though nervous as gnats our sweet little Bunces plied and cried for a ride on the big bouncy Bivouac." "By all means my best buddy Bunces,  said fake flouncy JayJack." Yikes... maybe I shouldn't have tried that. I'll be bivouacking in the backyard if anyone needs me.