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tepee
/ ˈtiːpiː /
noun
- a cone-shaped tent of animal skins used by certain North American Indians
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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.
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He told him when he, Coyote, was within the tepee, to attack it.
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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.
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Sacred Otter took a seat, but the owner of the tepee never looked his way, smoking on in stolid silence.
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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.
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So he made a small tepee, or tent, out of the buffalo's hide, and both crawled inside.
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