wigwam

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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noun a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides

Borrowed from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”), from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wickiup.

Who is this, that lights the wigwam? — The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I went into the wigwam; Jim warn’t there. — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
I could scarce discern one wigwam from another. — Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary White Rowlandson

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