What's the difference between tepee and wigwam?

Tepee


Definition:

  • (n.) An Indian wigwam or tent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She is ecstatic, excited, use whatever word you want,” Tepe said.
  • (2) At the Kara Tepe camp, which houses up to 2,000 mainly Syrians, there was very little to protect refugees against colder weather.
  • (3) A tepid jump from Jurij Tepes leaves 11 men still to leap.
  • (4) The Department of Defense was able to provide transportation for Mr Fowle in the time frame specified by the DPRK.” Fowle’s wife, Tatyana, “screamed when I told her,” said family attorney Timothy Tepe, who received a call from the State Department with word of the release.
  • (5) The government’s own camps are vastly overcrowded – with around 5,000 refugees squeezed into squalid conditions at the Kara Tepe camp on Lesbos.
  • (6) Although a complete evaluation of the Miles method would require its testing on a controlled population, the available dental sample from Tepe Hissar provided evidence of the reliability and validity of the Miles method of ageing archeological populations on the basis of dental wear.
  • (7) Due to selective retention of burial remains, the available skeletal sample from Tepe Hissar I-III is not representative of the human populations of the site and can not be used to generate meaningful demographic statistics.
  • (8) Tepe said Fowle himself called his wife soon afterwards.
  • (9) There have been fights that have broken out in Kara Tepe.
  • (10) Following the first recording of electroretinographic responses in man to a barred pattern by Riggs and associates (1964) in normal and by Lawwill (1973, 1974) in clinical cases, the first striking observation of a complete loss of pattern electroretinogram (PERG) after injurious section of the optic nerve by Groneberg & Teping (1980) has led to the conclusion that the PERG originates from proximal retinal structures different from those responsible for the luminance electroretinogram (LERG).
  • (11) The Miles system of ageing, based upon analysis of the rate of molar wear, was evaluated using the available dental sample from Tepe Hissar, Iran.

Wigwam


Definition:

  • (n.) An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From there I camped along New Zealand's coast, starting at Cape Reinga, went on to sleep out on beaches in Fiji and Tahiti, bedded down on ledges in America's national parks, slept by the fireside, Bedouin-style, in Wadi Rum and under a lavvu – a traditional Sami tent, a bit like a wigwam – in Finland in -40C.
  • (2) It seems an unlikely address for the chairman of the Savage Club and a staunch dinner and smoking companion at the Whitefriars, the WigWam and Royal Thames Yacht Club.
  • (3) Doubles from £64 B&B (two-night minimum in high season); two-night activity package £135pp including B&B, half-day boat trip and choice of kayaking, archery or cycling The Croft Bunkhouse, Bothies and Wigwams, Portnalong The Croft You've a choice of bunkhouse, bothy or wigwam on this 12-acre croft on the wild west coast.
  • (4) Depending on your budget – and how adventurous you're feeling – you can choose to pitch your own tent, or bed down in a stylish yurt, a wooden bungalow, a wigwam or – the newest addition to the fold – a converted Bedford truck.
  • (5) The three heated wooden wigwams are the glamping option, built from sustainable sitka or Norway spruce grown in Scotland, and bedded into the treeless landscape.
  • (6) The Queen of Hoxton, Curtain Road, is a good vantage point: its permanent rooftop wigwam goes through a seasonal facelift twice a year.
  • (7) Either way, he’s off soon to a brace of directorships, a glacial Scandinavian box set, and a heaving cheeseboard of the bassist from Blur’s Peripatetic Wigwam.
  • (8) • Doubles from $119, +1 928 289 4366, laposada.org 5 The Wigwam Motel, San Bernardino, California Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Wigwam is the epitome of kitsch.

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