toldo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a Central or South American shelter, especially a rounded Indigenous hut or tent covered with hides

   Each family slept in a hide-covered toldo near the edge of the encampment.

2. 2
   noun

   an awning, canopy, or roofed platform used as a shelter in Central or South America

   Musicians gathered beneath the toldo when the afternoon rain began.

Borrowed from American Spanish toldo, 'awning, canopy, wagon cover, or shelter,' from Old Spanish. The Spanish word came through Middle French taud, a ship's canopy, and is probably Germanic, related to Middle Dutch and Middle Low German words for a tent. English travel writing often uses toldo for a hide-covered Indigenous hut.

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