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summer lodge Arctic 
a tent of skins, used as a summer dwelling.
See also: tupek
- 1850 (1852) Most of them had moved for a while into their summer lodges, which consisted of little else than a seal-skin tent, clumsily supported with sticks.
- 1897 . . . his summer lodge is made of oil-tanned seal or deer-skins, neatly sewn together, and supported by poles . . . or pieces of drift-wood spliced together.
- 1963 The first Eskimo summer lodges were found the next day.
- 1850 (1852) Most of them had moved for a while into their summer lodges, which consisted of little else than a seal-skin tent, clumsily supported with sticks.