A type of tent or dwelling used by Native Americans.
Sinònims
Examples for "wigwam"
Examples for "wigwam"
1He lost his scalp; it hangs in the smoke of my wigwam.
2They promise me a wigwam in their village in the Blue Mountains.
3This made a little tent in the middle of the large wigwam.
4The wolf then went to the wigwam of the two old women.
5The clouds of steam which filled the wigwam quite disconcerted the wolves.
1The women went into the wickiup and covered their heads with their blankets.
2Glanton rode his horse completely through the first wickiup trampling the occupants underfoot.
3They let him live in the wickiup encampments.
4All followed the sprint she made for the wickiup, and saw, with her, the picture its interior afforded.
5But it's up to us to help all we can, and I reckon we'll begin by taking a preliminary survey of this wickiup.
1I ran to the wetu and clasped the wizard by his arm.
2He had reached the wetu and was lifting the woven mat.
3It was dark in the wetu, so I thought perhaps my eyes tricked me.
4When I left the wetu, the sun was setting.
5She walked quickly past, disappearing into some other wetu.
6He turned and began to walk towards his wetu.
7It was warm in the wetu, and the bark gave off a faint sweet smell of resin.
8Because there is no wetu in which you might lay your head without risk of witnessing some indecency.
9Those English who have never been within a wetu fashion them squalid, inferior to their own habitations in every way.
10Bettah have another conscwiption... o' ou' men will wetu'n neithah soldiers no' peasants, and we'll get only depwavity fwom them.
11I cannot write of what took place in that wetu, because I made a solemn oath, which I have never broken.
12The wetu was a well-made dome of bark with a hide drawn across its entrance to keep out the fall chill.
13So, he had gone to live in his uncle's wetu, while his elder brother Nanaakomin was like a shadow at their father's side.
14In the dim light of his wetu, Tequamuck spoke to me of what he had foreseen -hispeople reduced, no longer hunters but hunted.
15When Sofia asked what ailed me, I blamed my bowels' distress on the corn mash I had taken from the common pot in the wetu.
16I followed father into the wetu where the sick sonquem lay, his son at his side, surrounded by the most notable men of the village.