tent-roofed

Updated: May 19, 2025

Here they took quarters in those tent-roofed cottages which were so common in the old mining camps, and now three of them appeared in their proper garb, well-gowned young housewives and discreet to a degree which must have exasperated those of their neighbors inclined to gossip. For these ladies had nothing to say concerning whence they had come or the business of their husbands.

Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie) Bechdolt - When the West Was Young