igloo

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At 1 p.m. the igloo was about 8 feet across and already had a cold drop built.

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  1. noun An Inuit or Eskimo dwelling, especially a dome-shaped winter dwelling built of blocks of packed snow.
  2. noun A dome-shaped structure or building.

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  • The doors whisked open and he walked into an igloo, the walls made not of ice, but white shiny blocks. —  EQMM,September-October2007
  • Almost circling the interior of the igloo was the ice-block shelf which served the same purpose for the Eskimos as the studio couch serves New York apartment dwellers A blubber lamp burned in the center of the igloo, giving off a dark worm of smoke. —  068 - Fortress Of Solitude
  • Their escort led them to an igloo, a large one, made expertly of snow blocks well-frozen. —  068 - Fortress Of Solitude
  • The telling was done around a blubber lamp in an igloo, amid shadows thrown by the blubber lamp--so that the surroundings were spooky. —  070 - The Devil Genghis
  • The door of the building was larger than the back of the igloo, and the morning sun poured in through the open space and formed a blinding frame of light. —  Stabenow, Dana - [Liam Campbell 01] - Fire and Ice
 

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