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TEPEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Native American tent; usually of conical shape
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tepee" is a kind of...):
indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)
collapsible shelter; tent (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs))
Context examples:
After a time, he left Kiche's side and crawled cautiously toward the wall of the nearest tepee.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But in a short while his fear of the tepees passed away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The last few inches to the wall of the tepee were crawled with painful slowness and precaution.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He tugged still harder, and repeatedly, until the whole tepee was in motion.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Retreating before Lip-lip, White Fang made an indirect flight that led in and out and around the various tepees of the camp.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But after that he was afraid no more of the looming bulks of the tepees.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Sierra Vista was a far vaster affair than the tepee of Grey Beaver.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But he resolutely held the door of his tepee, inside which he had placed the culprit, and refused to permit the vengeance for which his tribespeople clamoured.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There was no fight left in Lip-lip, and he ran away shamelessly, his victim hot on his heels and worrying him all the way back to his own tepee.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
White Fang watched it all with eager eyes, and when the tepees began to come down and the canoes were loading at the bank, he understood.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
