DCHP-3

snow igloo

Arctic
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a domed structure built of blocks of hard snow; an Eskimo snowhouse. [See picture at igloo.]

See: igloo(meaning 1a)

Quotations

1921
Their clothing was of skins, and in summer they lived in skin tents and in winter in snow igloos, in the building of which they were very expert.
1952
She's been stormbound in tents and snow igloos; when their small son was only four, they were lost in a storm once for days in the ice of Hudson Bay, but kept alive by building an igloo and eating one of their loved dog team.