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Look up: Wigwam

  1. Wigwam
    The dome-shaped lodge of some eastern Indian tribes.
    Found on http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm/gloss

  2. Wigwam
    An Abnaki word for a dwelling made from bark, saplings or brush.
    Found on http://users.michweb.net/~orendon/americ

  3. wigwam
    [n] - a native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. wigwam
    Temporary dwelling made by American Indians. It consists of a rough conical framework of poles stuck in the ground and converging above, covered with bark, matting, or tanned hides. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  5. Wigwam
    Wig'wam noun [ From the Algonquin or Massachusetts Indian word wēk , 'his house,' or 'dwelling place;' with possessive and locative affixes, wē-kou-om-ut , 'in his (or their) house,' contracted by the English to weekwam ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/38

  6. wigwam
    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. [Sometimes written also weekwam] 'Very spacious was the wigwam, Made of deerskin dressed and whitened, With the gods of the Dacotahs Drawn and painted on its curt...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. wigwam
    noun a native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. Wigwam
    • (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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. Wigwam
    A wigwam is the hut or dwelling place of the north-eastern Algonquian Indians of North America. There are four main types of wigwam: domed, peaked, tepee-shaped and the bark house. The domed wigwam was made of saplings driven into the ground and bent over to form a framework of arches over which spread birch or elm bark or reed mats.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. wigwam
    wigwam (wig'wäm) , dwelling found among the Algonquian of the Eastern woodlands area of the United States. The wigwam was usually conical, arborlike, or domed. Some were small, accommodating a single family; others were large communal dwellings. They were covered with squares of bark, with ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  11. Wigwam
    : A `wigwam` or `wickiup` is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes. The term wickiup is generally used to label these kinds of dwellings in American Southwest and West. Wigwam is usually applied to these structures in the American Northeast. The use of these term...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigwam

  12. Wigwam
    (progressive rock) `Wigwam` is a Finnish progressive rock band formed in 1968. Wigwam was founded after the split of the seminal Blues Section, with whom drummer Ronnie Österberg had played before. He formed the band as a trio, but soon brought in British expatriate singer/songwriter Jim ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigwam

  13. WigWam
    `WigWam` are a duo comprising Alex James, the bassist from Blur and vocalist Betty Boo. With record producer Ben Hillier, and former Boo collaborators Beatmasters, WigWam were said to be creating an album which they described as "experimental yet accessible 21st century pop". However, Jame...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WigWam

  14. Wigwam
    (Chicago) The `Wigwam` was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention.<ref name=CL/> It was located in Chicago, Illinois at Lake Street and Market (later work=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago-->--> This site had previously ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigwam



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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