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
  • Pods, cabins, wigwams, huts, and treehouses are also available.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Its layout also ties the home to its earthly landscape; the living room is inspired by the Native American wigwam, with elements including a central fireplace and a hole in the top to let the smoke out.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement The aftermath Survivors who lost their homes had to build barrack huts.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Run comfortably from hut to hut in Italy along the Alta Via 1, surrounded by the dramatic peaks of the Dolomites.
    Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, her topless form is showcased in a sculpture that a fellow beatnik/hippie artist, played by Charles Bronson, is working on in her beach shack, when Burton’s Edward comes to call.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Walk into a crowded beach shack, a trade show or a sales pitch.
    Sahil Gandhi, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Her hogan, completed in 2020, is built out of juniper wood, bark, and sand.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But beginning with the Class of ’23, search sea shanties have been growing grimmer.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • The rousing shanty is already a knowing commentary on class and hypocrisy.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The motion picture world of today reminds me of Rio – opulent penthouses (big IP) on one side of the street, and hovels (independent movies) on the other.
    Bill Mechanic, Deadline, 15 May 2025
  • Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
    Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • About 200 people were gathered on a rooftop in Chinatown for an art opening inside a former storage shed.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Folly, is a steel structure, a kind of modern ruin said to reference the structure of a old calf shed, set among the garden trees of Huis Doorn, a 19th century manor in the Netherlands.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • McGlinchey said the run game has been a focal point all of camp.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But that’s what’s noteworthy —remarkable, even — about the kind of training camp he’s had.
    Sam McDowell August 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Wickiup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiup. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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