wickiup
Americannoun
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(in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
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Western U.S. any rude hut.
noun
Etymology
Origin of wickiup
1850–55, earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of the Upper Great Lakes Indians < Fox wi·kiya·pi house < Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi; cf. wigwam
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Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup.
From Time Magazine Archive
Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If Redbird does not welcome you into this wickiup I share with her and Eagle Feather, I cannot invite you inside."
From Shaman by Robert Shea
He went to his own pallet on the east side of the wickiup.
From Shaman by Robert Shea
He felt her slender arms around him as they had held him so many nights in their wickiup.
From Shaman by Robert Shea
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