wigwam
noun/ˈwɪɡwæm/
/ˈwɪɡwɑːm/
- a type of tent, like a dome in shape, used by some native North American peoples in the past see also tepeeWord Originearly 17th cent.: from Ojibwa (an Algonquian language) wigwaum, Algonquian wikiwam ‘their house’.
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