Wigwam vs Wickiup - What's the difference?
wigwam | wickiup |
A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
* 1813 , John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted... , volume 1, page 403:
* 1845 edition, Charles Darwin, Journal and Remarks'' (''The Voyage of the Beagle ):
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A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
* 1992 , Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses :
As nouns the difference between wigwam and wickiup
is that wigwam is a dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States while wickiup is a domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.wigwam
English
(wikipedia wigwam)Noun
(en noun)- Their houses or wigwams , which they call carbets'', are built as I have already described those of the negroes; but instead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called ''tas ,
- The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock. It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.
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(Native American dwellings)References
wickiup
English
(wikipedia wickiup)Noun
(en noun)- At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.