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Definition of Tupik
1. Noun. Tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling.
Definition of Tupik
1. Noun. A tent or other building made from animal skins, used by the Inuit during the summer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tupik
1. an Eskimo tent [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tupik
Literary usage of Tupik
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic by Robert Edwin Peary (1910)
"The tupik is made of sealskins, with the hair on the inside. Ten or twelve skins,
sewed together in one large piece, make a tent. It is stretched on poles, ..."
2. A Tenderfoot with Peary by George Borup (1911)
""tupik shew tee, tupik shew tee, no good." ("Tents all the time no good.")
Well, to-day, after twelve ... We demurred and informed him that "tupik shew tee, ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1895)
"... and what the traps gave them, but in December one of their hunters came across
a tupik (a skin-tent) of three women and a girl nearly dead, ..."
4. Secrets of Polar Travel by Robert Edwin Peary (1917)
"The roofs are removed to dry the interior, and the family takes up its residence
in a tupik, or tent of skin, from June to September. ..."
5. Boas Anniversary Volume: Anthropological Papers Written in Honor of Franz by Berthold Laufer, H. A. Andrews (1906)
"We were well into the Cumberland Gulf, close to the south shore, near tupik, when
we met two boats' crews, ..."
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