tepee

noun

te·pee | \ˈtē-(ˌ)pē

\

variants: or teepee or less commonly tipi

Definition of tepee

: a conical tent usually consisting of skins and used especially by American Indians of the Great Plains

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This summer, Off the Map Travel is introducing three-night trips on Norway’s Lofoten Islands, a mountainous and fjord-filled region above the Arctic Circle, based in tepee tents decorated in the style of the indigenous Sami people. — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, "Glamping Slips Into the Mainstream," 15 June 2018 Duane Linklater, an Omaskêko Ininiwak artist from Canada, has installed towering tripodal works that recall the structure of the tepee and contrast starkly with the ever-rising condominium towers surrounding the High Line. — Daniel Mcdermon, New York Times, "8 Outdoor Art Installations in New York to Get Excited About," 25 May 2018 In the Mark penthouse, whose square footage is eleven thousand feet, with a rack rate of seventy-five thousand dollars a night, an industrious six-year-old was seated inside a canvas tepee. — Bob Morris, The New Yorker, "The Coloring Book Enters Its Baroque Phase," 11 June 2018 Polar bears, igloos, frozen seas, and tepees combine to create a dreamy, almost surreal trance in Song on the Wind, by Caroline Everson and illustrator Anne Marie Bourgeois. — Monitor Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, "Voyages, animals, beauty for the youngest readers," 11 June 2018 Hinman said part of the farm’s appeal was sitting around a fire in the tepee and drinking hot cocoa. — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, "Craftsbury Christmas Farm Tradition Coming To An End After 23 Years," 19 Dec. 2017 Attendees were housed in white tepee-like tents, with portable toilets set up down a dirt path. — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, "How to Hack Your Brain (for $5,000)," 21 Sep. 2017 The bigwigs from the company Grandad founded - by burning grasslands and bulldozing tepees - are invited, and Andrew hopes the old man will give him a hoary thumbs-up with the board and win him a promotion. — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, "Eric Coble's world-premiere farce 'The Family Claxon' at Cleveland Public Theatre is a fun-house mirror for America (review)," 20 Oct. 2017 There’s pictures of them with wolves in front of their tepees. — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, "Colville tribes to open hunt on wolves near Canadian border," 5 Aug. 2017

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The first known use of tepee was in 1743

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tepee

noun

English Language Learners Definition of tepee

: a tent that is shaped like a cone and that was used in the past by some Native Americans as a house

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tepee

noun

te·pee | \ˈtē-ˌpē\

Kids Definition of tepee

: a tent shaped like a cone and used as a home by some American Indians

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