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A cone that outran the apartment: portable, windproof, and basically a tornado's worst enemy.
means A portable, cone-shaped dwelling made of a pole framework covered in animal hide or canvas, traditionally used by some Plains Indigenous peoples of North America.
from From Lakota (a Siouan language), where 'thípi' breaks down roughly to 'they dwell' — ti meaning 'to dwell' plus the pi suffix marking a plural or general subject. The word traveled into English in the 1800s as settlers and traders borrowed Lakota and Dakota vocabulary wholesale, often respelled to match English spelling habits (hence 'tipi' alongside the variants 'tepee' and 'teepee'). Worth noting: the structure itself is far older and more widespread than the English word suggests, built and perfected long before it had a name outsiders could pronounce.
- smoke flap engineering
- adjustable ears vent fire without putting it out
- not teepee
- tipi is the correct Lakota-rooted spelling
- setup speed
- experienced crews raised one in under an hour
- shape logic
- cone sheds wind better than any boxy tent