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tepee|ˈtiːpiː, tiːˈpiː|
Also † teebee, teepee, tepe, tepie, teepe, ti pee; tipi (sometimes preferred).
[Sioux or Dakota Indian ˈtīpī tent, house, dwelling, abode (Rigg, Dakota-Eng. Dict. 1890).]
1. A tent or wigwam of the American Indians, formed of bark, mats, skins, or canvas stretched over a frame of poles converging to and fastened together at the top. In extended uses, applied to a similar structure used by peoples of other parts of the world, as a child's toy, or for camping. Also attrib.
1743J. Isham in Publ. Hudson's Bay Record Soc. (1949) XII. 45 A tent Build ti pee. 1847G. W. Featherstonhaugh Canoe Voyage I. xxx. 338 Here, also, were their spring teebees, which they inhabit at that season. 1849M. H. Eastman Dahcotah p. xxii, The messenger enters the wigwam (or teepee, as the houses of the Sioux are called) of the juggler. 1872W. F. Butler Gt. Lone Land ix. 125 One has to travel far..before the smoke of your wigwam or of your tepie blurs the evening air. 1877Black Green Past. xlv, At length we descried..three teepees—tall, narrow, conical tents with the tips of the poles on which the canvas is stretched appearing at the top. 1899Stutfield in Blackw. Mag. Mar. 546 That evening we dispensed with the teepee and camped in the open air. 1910Encycl. Brit. XIV. 469/1 The skin tents or tipis of many of the Plains peoples. 1959A. Moorehead No Room in Ark ix. 211 I liked the Dinka villages... They looked like Red Indian encampments of a century or two ago: tall teepees made of grass and arranged in a rough circle on the bank. 1960D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 5) vii. 90 The plains' area was the home of the tipi, a tent of buffalo hide stretched around a conical framework formed by fourteen to eighteen long poles, whose points radiated like a funnel above the peak. 1970New Yorker 12 Dec. 138/2 A six-and-a-half-foot tepee costs $25 [in a toy-shop]. 1974N. Gordimer Conservationist 42 The newly-ploughed field, where the mealie stalks are piled into tepees. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 2 July 8-a/1 (Advt.), You'll love the weekend activities in store for you at four nearby KOA Kampgrounds. All you need to take is your family or friends, sleeping bags and food. The Tepee or Tent will be waiting for you to move right in and there's a grill for cooking.
2. attrib. and Comb., as tepee cloth, tepee cover, tepee pole, tepee trail; tepee-like adj.; tepee ring (see quot.).
1877Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 50 Tepee cloth should be discontinued, and..log or frame houses should be substituted.
1890E. Custer Following Guidon 6 The hides were dressed for robes or tepee covers.
1925Blackw. Mag. May 658/1 There were three large tepee-like tents.
1897J. W. Tyrrell Across Sub-Arctics of Canada 68 Instead of Indians, [we] found only old forsaken ‘tepee’ poles and blackened fire-places. 1899Stutfield in Blackw. Mag. Mar. 542 Now and then we saw the teepee poles of old Indian camping-grounds.
1956D. Leechman Native Tribes of Canada 10 We find..on the prairies, tipi rings, circles of stones that once were used to hold down the edges of the skin tents.
1869Amer. Naturalist II. 648 [We] follow upon the dim road or the tepe trail over the broad prairie. |