yurt

jurtta A large, round, semipermanent semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).
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(quote-journal)|month=February|year=1994|volume=22|issue=129(1)|page=70|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=--IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70|issn=0277-867X|oclc=859045083|passage=Who would have imagined that the circular, skin-covered, pole-framed tents used by Mongolian nomads would find another life in the Colorado backcountry? The Mongols might be surprised if they could see how their portable structures have been improved and put to use in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. (..) About halfway to the Neff Mountain yurt, the trail makes an uphill switchback and passes the bottom of a big, open bowl.
(quote-book)|month=August|year=2008|page=17|isbn=978-1-84162-234-7|passage=The principal dwelling of the nomadic Kazakhs, the circular, felt-covered yurt is a potent image of Kazakh culture. Few Kazakhs now live in yurts, although they are still used by some pastoralists who still move their herds into summer mountain pastures. (..) But the imagery of the yurt remains central to Kazakh ethnic identity, and provides national cultural symbolism deployed by the authorities of independent Kazakhstan.
(quote-book)|year=2010|isbn=978-1-86254-900-5|passage=I saw the first round white roofs of yurts, or gers as they are called in Mongolian. Yurt is Russian, and all that is Russian is now on the outer in Mongolia. If you said yurt, Mongolians looked at you as though you had uttered a dirty word.
(quote-book) The first few months during which we lived in our yurt saw the sun burning into our south and southwest facing windows. Our only solution was to use blinds, which left the yurt darkened. A more viable solution was a mirrored portable awning that was built into a scaffold sitting just outside the window.
(alternative form of)
native country, homeland
home
student dormitory, hostel
yurt (tent)
jaw