Wigwam vs Wikiup - What's the difference?
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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 ):
As nouns the difference between wigwam and wikiup
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 wikiup is an alternative spelling of lang=en.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.