What is a Yurt?

A tent-like Central Asian home made of a circular lattice of poles covered with felt or animal skins. The highly-portable yurt is used all across the steppes by nomadic Mongolian and Turkic peoples.

"My Turkmen uncle still lives in a yurt; he doesn't feel comfortable in an apartment building."

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