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  • noun Plural form of igloo.

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Examples

  • Prime Minister Poutine, living in igloos, stuff like that.

    Optical camels : Bev Vincent 2009

  • By the end of the night, my Dad had her convinced that we all live in igloos and that he had a horse tied up outside.

    he's baa-aack 2005

  • Then he said, You know, the way we all live in igloos and have penguins in our backyard.

    the cable guy 2005

  • Inuit were contributors to Canada's gross national product during the fur trade and I was born into that even though we were living in igloos at the time.

    Ongoing Challenges for the Inuit People of Canada 2005

  • By the end of the night, my Dad had her convinced that we all live in igloos and that he had a horse tied up outside.

    he's baa-aack 2005

  • We weren't really experts in igloos, so we started with what were really just wind breaks.

    Across the North Pole 1988

  • These bumps are called igloos or bunkers, and this is where the finished bombs are kept.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2002 2002

  • In the winter, when hunting, they reside in igloos.

    To the Top of the World With the Eastern Arctic Patrol 1936

  • Back of the igloos was a hill a couple of hundred feet high, and many times each day the men of the camp would climb it and look long and earnestly to the north, where the heaving billows of Hudson Straits and the sky line met, broken only here and there by huge icebergs that towered like great crystal mountains above the water.

    Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Dillon Wallace 1901

  • These snow-houses, called igloos in the language of the Esquimaux, are constructed with great rapidity, and are admirably suited to the climate.

    The Fur Country 1874

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