![]() ![]() ![]() A camp-stool (1794) has a flexible seat and cross-legs and is made to be folded up and packed away when not in use. Tony Warren, in Behind Closed Doors (about a young gay lad growing up in post war Britain), has a character define camp as 'to stand out against an already theatrical background'. Camp-fever (1758) is any epidemic fever incident to life in a camp, especially typhus or typhoid. Camp-meeting "religious meeting for prayer, etc., held in an outdoor camp" is from 1809, American English, originally and especially in reference to Methodists. Camp-follower "one who follows an army without being officially connected to it," such as sutlers, washer-women, etc., first attested 1810. Many of these campgrounds offer events that celebrate gay pride, and some are clothing-optional. Being gay is the norm at these campgrounds, rather than a minority. Meaning "body of adherents of a doctrine or cause" is from 1871. A gay campground is a regular campground that’s welcoming to members of the LGBTQ+ community. Transferred to non-military senses by 1550s. The direct descendant of Latin campus in French is champ "a field." The Latin word had been taken up in early West Germanic as *kampo-z and appeared originally in Old English as camp "contest, battle, fight, war." This word was obsolete by mid-15c. 1520s, "place where an army lodges temporarily," from French camp, in this sense from Italian campo, from Latin campus "open field, level space," especially "open space for military exercise" (see campus).
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