long-house

A form of longhouse — A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.

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Meanings

nounlong-house (plural long-houses)

plural long-houses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of longhouse.

    To make wads and wisps for those that go to the Long-house (you know what I meane).

    1622, M. Alemán, chapter II, in J. Mabbe, transl., Rogue, page 355
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    The Welsh long-houses […] with long sides and opposite doors providing a passage from side to side, and dividing the building roughly in two.

    1966, G.E. Evans, chapter V, in Pattern under Plough, page 72
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