Purpose-made stand-alone flies are also sometimes referred to as bivouacs, bivvies, tarpaulins, or hootchies.
They had to bivouac at night in a field.
In a standing camp a marquee is allowed for the officers' mess, but during manoeuvres it is seldom available, and officers bivouac with their men.
She said that people caught out, and who rightly bivouac overnight waiting for the dawn, should hope that they have a benign landowner who will rescue them.
Field allowance is issuable to officers and warrant officers when they are required to occupy unfurnished accommodation, whether under canvas, in bivouac, in war shelters or in huts or billets.
Therefore, if users find themselves in adverse conditions in which it is unsafe to go on and decide to shelter in a bivouac they will lose their right of access.
The following weekend the platoon are in the countryside to try out their bivouac tents.
They reached the summit at the end of the second day, after a night of bivouac.
