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Meanings of earth lodge in inglés

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землянка
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arquitectura excavada
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Shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.

        arquitectura excavada
        Usage of earth lodge in inglés
        1
        The ceremony generally took place in a circular dwelling known as an " earth lodge."
        Indian Story and Song, from North America
        2
        Dead bodies in rough boxes lie on the ground on a knoll not far from our house, and near by is an old-style earth lodge.
        The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 03, March, 1896
        3
        People know that the buffaloes live in earth lodges; so they never dance the buffalo dance vainly.
        Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
        4
        They saw the earth lodges as of old, thickly clustered along the flats of the Missouri, among their rustling maize-fields.
        Old Indian Days
        5
        The sides of this funnel were rugged rock, and in the banks of earth lodged here and there upon projections, a scrubby vegetation grew.
        For the Term of His Natural Life