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tepee

/ ˈtiːpiː /

noun

  1. a cone-shaped tent of animal skins used by certain North American Indians
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tepee1

C19: from Siouan tīpī, from ti to dwell + pi used for
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Example Sentences

Out West, in a tepee, on a reservation, alcohol, drug abuse, drain on society, poverty, uneducated—beaten down.

He told him when he, Coyote, was within the tepee, to attack it.

He lied to me about the gun; he has come into the council tepee of the Chis-chis-chash and lied to all the chiefs.

Sacred Otter took a seat, but the owner of the tepee never looked his way, smoking on in stolid silence.

Sacred Otter spent the long, cold nights in making a model of the Snow-tepee and painting it as he had been directed in his dream.

So he made a small tepee, or tent, out of the buffalo's hide, and both crawled inside.

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