Light, round tent

Usage examples of yurt.

Janiya took Erdene into the yurt to talk to her alone, and came out looking utterly exasperated.

Tents and yurts of the Senan, Gilk, Ahkrata and Barahn tribesas well as many otherscovered the valley floor.

As they drew nearer to the camp, Malik saw tents with torn flaps, shacks with painted walls, and worn-down paths winding among the yurts.

After a few moments, people disappeared inside the yurts, but one young man remained outside, staring past Malik at the Guardian.

With his own preparations to make, General Chanar wheeled his horse around and galloped away, headed toward his own yurt.

MONK FROM TIBET: He lived in a yurt, ate tea thick with butter, wondered a lot about life, took a vow of chastity but broke it when he was in Alexandria, discovered the Ovis poli and the spectacled bear, not knowing what he had discovered, knew some good jokes, and died without ever being really satisfied.

Mongols were shamanists, eschewing public rituals for oracles, exorcisms and magic displays in the privacy of their yurts.

He had begged for a bed in dirty hovels and caravanserais, and drunk sour milk in felt yurts.

In the musty dark of the yurt, where children snored gently in their cots, the cosmonauts were given breakfast of a little unleavened bread, and a bowl of a kind of hot tea.

There were no permanent buildings, only domelike yurts of white and black spread out in the shallow bowl of a valley.

The nightguard, the same man who was in the yurt when they left, ran up to the door and dropped to one knee alongside the khahan.

Outside, the finest and most trusted of the nightguards ringed the yurt.

At first Kolya puzzled about how the yurt could be taken down and reerected, as it must be at least twice a year as the nomads traveled between their summer and winter pastures.

Judging by the dirty exteriors, Koja doubted the yurts were bright and cheery inside.

Beyond the fence Koja saw five large yurts, bigger than any he had passed.