单词 | earth lodge |
释义 | earth lodgen.adj. Now chiefly historical. A. n. A type of dwelling constructed by any of various North American Indian peoples, typically consisting of a domed structure covered with compacted earth.The earth lodge is particularly associated with the Hidatsa, Mandan, Pawnee, and other peoples of the Great Plains. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] earth lodge1823 1823 Amer. Missionary Reg. Feb. 52/2 This [Pawnee Maha] village contains about thirty seven earth lodges, and seventy skin lodges. 1896 Cent. Mag. Jan. 454/2 When I passed through the long passageway of an Eskimo dwelling to the semi-subterranean room, with its domed roof and central opening for light and smoke, I was reminded of the earth lodge of the Indians. 1904 Sci. Amer. 24 Sept. 217 The most imposing building..is a Pawnee earth lodge... The framework of the building is very heavy, as it must needs be to carry the great weight of the earth and grass sod with which it is covered. 2001 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 11 Feb. t1 The adventurers [sc. Meriweather Lewis and William Clark] wintered among the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes living in five villages of dome-shaped earth lodges. B. adj. (attributive). Of or designating any of the various North American Indian peoples who built and inhabited such dwellings. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > others Padouca1760 Quapaw1770 black-footed1772 Sarcee1790 Ozark1816 Comanche1819 Tonkawa1870 earth lodge1885 Skidi1891 1885 Trans. Anthropol. Soc. Washington 3 142 He then gave a part of the tradition of the Sacred Pipes to the Omaha gentes: ‘The Earth-lodge people were visited by the seven old men bearing the pipes.’ 1935 Sci. News. Let. 13 July 25/3 When contagious diseases swept the villages, the conquest was complete, and only a few miles of river were left to the earthlodge tribes. 1957 Amer. Antiq. 22 440/2 Intrusive sherds were Oneonta, in the upper levels, and one simple-stamped sherd typical of the Earth Lodge cultures of the Missouri River. 2004 Amer. Hist. Apr. (Lewis & Clark Travel Guide Suppl.) 8/3 This event underscores the bonds of friendship forged by the Corps of Discovery with the earth lodge peoples of the Upper Missouri during the winter of 1804–05. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1823 |
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