tepee
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Instead of a steel column stiffly supporting a billboard the avant-garde designer created a tepee of irregularly shaped, leaning vertical planes programmed with digital art and ads, all specifically designed for irregular screens.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022
As Sitting Bull spoke, his younger wife entered the tepee and threw sticks on the fire before reclining in its glow.
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021
To commemorate their return, the tribe raised a traditional tepee longhouse on the crest of the property.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021
Here, the layout is divided into discrete picture-taking stations, including a sleigh — fit for two to four people — and a Christmas tree, hollowed out like a tepee.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2020
Where they were chained, their ends overlapped like the spokes of a tepee that had fallen on its side.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
Vocabulary lists containing tepee
Native American History - Introductory
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Native American History - Middle School and High School
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Civilizations of the Americas, Lessons 3–4
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