wickiup

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Recent Examples of wickiup Part tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun. Popular Science, 28 May 2020 The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation. Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickiup
Noun
  • Other kinds of algorithms underlie the repeating sequences of bent wood arcs that make up Native American wigwams, canoes and cradles.
    Audrey G. Bennett, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt receives a miniature wigwam at a Boy Scout camp in New York State in 1933.
    NBC news, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • The short trail passes faithful re-creations of domed huts and paperbark canoes, offering a glimpse of how the Indigenous Needwonnee people lived and cultivated the land.
    Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the 33 rooms in the 5-star Auberge de la Maison are inspired by real mountain huts while others have a more romantic style.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One man in a shack made of wood and tarp reclined next to a roaring bonfire with flames several feet high.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The monster mansion replacing a 100-year-old beach shack in the estate sections isn’t a new phenomenon in the Hamptons.
    Stephanie Krikorian, Curbed, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.
    Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The Navajo elder lives in a hogan, a traditional home, built for him by neighbors in Wide Ruins, a remote town of 175 people in northeastern Arizona, about 250 miles from Phoenix.
    Alex Rhoades, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • The annual Winter Kite Festival kicks off on the lake near the shanties at noon.
    Audrey Kennedy, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Deer heads are mounted on the walls, mini-toboggans are nailed to the ceiling, and lumberjack-plaid drapery evokes cabanes à sucre, or sugar shacks, traditional shanties set up in forests where the sap to be turned into maple syrup is harvested.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Many rising comedians live in hovels, but not Zarna Garg, who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.
    Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Noun
  • One home was damaged, however, and multiple outbuildings, referring to sheds, garages and buildings of the like, have been destroyed.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In another, overlooking a Han River marina, there are three interlocking layers: water (most of the picture), hilly horizon, and, at left, a scalloped edge of rowboats and storage sheds that pulls your eyes downward.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In Mae La camp, Rosella can’t stray far from her oxygen tank.
    Ivan Watson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Read on to find a list of foods in the latter camp that registered dietitians wholeheartedly recommend.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Wickiup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiup. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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