yurt
a tentlike dwelling of the Mongol and Turkic peoples of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or skins.
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Or, if your budget is modest, you can search for nearby tents or yurts for “any weekend” of the summer.
Airbnb’s newest features are a response to the work-from-anywhere trend | Lila MacLellan | May 24, 2021 | QuartzTravel might be slow to return, but this gift card, which is good for a night in a castle, cabin, condo, yurt, or even a potato, will be waiting.
37 Gifts to Buy This Mother's Day for Every Type of Mom in Your Life | Melissa Locker | May 3, 2021 | TimeAfter her job as an expert makeup artist at a theme park was eliminated, she worked on a hemp farm in northern Virginia, living in a yurt and finishing her online certification as a yoga instructor.
Choose between car-camping sites and amenity-rich yurt rentals.
Nature Is in Charge at Glacier National Park | Emily Pennington | December 18, 2020 | Outside OnlineThere are photographers Stephen and Hanna Nereo, who left Los Angeles for Colorado, where they built a 435-square-foot canvas-and-wood yurt, largely with their own hands.
If you’re thinking of a drastic lifestyle change, ‘Off Grid Life’ will feed your fantasy (or kill it) | Tim Smith | October 30, 2020 | Washington Post
Her route is well planned, yet somewhere—on the streets of Tehran, in a yurt in Turkmenistan—Lin-Liu loses her way.
This Week’s Hot Reads: July 29, 2013 | Jessica Ferri, Damaris Colhoun | July 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy should it have, when I already knew yurt so well—considered him, in fact, one of my closest friends?
Zen | Jerome Bixbyyurt, after two years of living with us, still couldn't understand why we found this confusing.
Zen | Jerome BixbyNor does the Mongol till the soil; nothing is found growing near his yurt.
A Wayfarer in China | Elizabeth Kendall"We were rather surprised ourselves," yurt said complacently.
Zen | Jerome BixbyRound the walls of the yurt were ranged one or two tables and chests of drawers.
A Wayfarer in China | Elizabeth Kendall
British Dictionary definitions for yurt
/ (jʊət) /
a circular tent consisting of a framework of poles covered with felt or skins, used by Mongolian and Turkic nomads of E and central Asia
Origin of yurt
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