tupik

Cul-de-sac translates in Russian as tupik — a word that evokes vulnerability and danger, a dead end with no escape.

Situated on a gently southward sloping knoll are the igloos and tupiks, where I have spent many pleasant days with my Esquimo friends and learned much of the folk-lore and history.

The tupik is made of sealskins, with the hair on the inside.

In anger she fled into her tupik, or tent.

In the summer they live in a tent, which they call a "tupik."