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Word of the Day for Thursday, March 31, 2011bivouac \BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak\, noun: 1. An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter. intransitive verb: Rob had made his emergency bivouac just below the South Summit. They were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal. Bivouac comes from French bivouac, from German Beiwache, "a watching or guarding," from bei, "by, near" + wachen, "to watch." | |||||||||
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