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tepee

[ UK /tˈiːpiː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a Native American tent; usually of conical shape

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  • The tepees, the yoga kiva, the pre-massage ritual of burning sage to ward off evil spirits - are all nods to an ancient way of life.
  • He looked into David's room and found him fast asleep in the opening to his Indian tepee. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The Indians improvised breastworks on nearby hillsides and fought back but could only watch helplessly as soldiers burned tepees, blankets, and sacred objects, destroyed tons of dried buffalo meat, and seized 750 ponies and a thousand buffalo robes. Between War and Peace
  • From a long way off they could see ‘the wide plain, a small lake, tepee upon tepee, hundreds of them, all in a large circle’ and hear the beating of drums and the barking of countless dogs.
  • It also involves sleeping out under canvas or tepees during the summer months and in shared rooms in the farmhouse in the autumn and winter.
  • Does the Registered Architects' Board have to employ someone who understands tepee building or Mongolian yurts?
  • Plant two different vines on one tepee for a two-tone treatment.
  • Plains Indians, in contrast, erected tentlike tepees, constructed out of poles wrapped with buffalo skins.
  • These included decorative artifacts, painted tepees that served as card rooms, and a series of so-called ‘picture writing’ panels that depicted the war records of individual Blackfeet intertribal war veterans.
  • There is also an 1830 Conestoga wagon, an observation platform of a railroad car, and a replica of a Tepee.
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