chickee


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chickee

(tʃɪˈkiː)
n
a thatched building on stilts with open sides which was the customary home of the Seminole Indians
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Walt's today is best known for its Chickee bar and its bustling restaurant, but the heart and soul of the establishment is the seafood market in the back.
Our chickee consisted of two 10-by-12 wooden platforms, just big enough for one tent each and a couple of chairs.
You can camp on the Pearl Bay or Hell's Bay chickee and spend several days if desired (you'll need a backcountry camping permit).
"Chickee" is the word Seminoles use for "house." The first Seminoles to live in North Florida are known to have constructed log cabin-type homes, some two stories tall, with sleeping quarters upstairs.
Mangano, Jr and his wife Teresa of Fairbanks Alaska, Deborah Douglas of Holden and Andrea "Chickee" Sacco and her husband Michael P.
Stay overnight at Everglades in a traditional thatched Chickee hut for about pounds 24 a night.
Between each pair of courts was a grassy alleyway complete with a chickee hut--the ingenious palm-thatched, open-sided shelter the Seminole Indians had devised as homes to provide maximum comfort in hot swampy conditions.
He, along with members of the Southern Cross Astronomical Society, had spent countless hours replacing demolished "chickee huts" and replanting the toppled palm trees that had helped isolate the site -- only to see their efforts partially undone in late 1999 when Hurricane Irene swept through.
Games (1951), his first piece, presents the street life of playful but wary city children, whose rhythmical chanting of doggerel is alarmingly interrupted by the shouted warning, "Chickee! The cop!" The edge of sadness is never far from the spirit of the blues.
"I can't choose to go out in the agricultural area and live in a chickee because of my race," Norris said.
Students also constructed replicas of the longhouse, chickee, and wigwam.
The only permits issued over the phone are for visitors coming in from the south, camping on North Nest Key, Little Rabbit Key, Shark Point Chickee and Cape Sable.