yurt

[ UK /jˈɜːt/ ]
[ US /ˈjʊɹt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
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How To Use yurt In A Sentence

  • Helped a commune of longhairs build a crazy house called a yurt. The Long Walk Home
  • The Mongols, like so many Eastern peoples, suffer much from inflammation of the eyes, the result of dirt, and even more of the acrid argol smoke filling the yurts so that often I was compelled to take flight. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia
  • At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
  • Does the Registered Architects' Board have to employ someone who understands tepee building or Mongolian yurts?
  • The book festival is in a square, filled with huge tents, pods and even a yurt.
  • Nash directed Katani and Yurt to go back to the swamp and soak a bandanna with cold water. Beacon Street Girls: Lake Rescue
  • On the Loose Expeditions' two luxury yurts are in a secluded corner of a 150-acre working organic farm in Vermont's Green Mountains.
  • Inside the yurt was a pond where goldfish swam from The Times: Carol Ann Duffy's tribute to departing head of Edinburgh book festival posted by Rus Bowden at 2:49 PM Archive 2009-08-01
  • The camp was ready for my sole occupancy and, yes, it was made up of those wonderful, traditional, Mongolian felt tents they called yurts.
  • A motorcycle and sidecar stood somewhat incongruously outside a yurt, a large domed tent constructed of sections of felt stitched over a framework of laths.
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