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noun a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
originBorrowed from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”), from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wickiup.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0