Camp vs. Kitsch: What's the Difference?

A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.

Pieces of art or other objects that appeal to popular or uncultivated taste, as in being garish or overly sentimental.

A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings

Art, decorative objects, and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.

The people using such shelters

Of art and decor: of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.

A place, often in the country, that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children

Art in pretentious bad taste

(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.

Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

The people attending the programs at such a place.

A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.

A prison camp or concentration camp.

Military service; army life.

A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side

Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect

To make or set up a camp.

To live in or as if in a camp; settle

To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp

To act in a histrionic or exaggerated manner.

To act in an exaggerated, effeminate manner.

To exaggerate or overdramatize

Showing or characterized by camp

Given to or characterized by exaggerated, effeminate mannerisms.

An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.

An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.

A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

A single hut or shelter.

The company or body of persons encamped.

A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.

(obsolete) An army.

(uncommon) Campus

(informal) A summer camp.

(prison slang) A prison.

(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost

(obsolete) Conflict; battle.

An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.

An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.

To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

To set up a camp.

(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.

To stay in an advantageous location.

To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.

To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.

To wrangle; argue.

Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

Ostentatiously effeminate.

Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; - called also burrow and pie.

An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; - often with out.

To play the game called camp.

Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;

A group of people living together in a camp;

Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers;

An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

A prison for forced laborers;

Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality;

Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months;

Live in or as if in a tent;

Establish or set up a camp

Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities;