An Indian hut (America). The Knisteneaux word is wigwaum, and the Algonquin wēkou-om-ut, contracted into wekouom (ou = w, as in French), whence wēkwom.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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