Meanings
plural mudhouses
- A simple house built primarily of mud.
The settlers' mudhouses were swamped and they could not get out.
1955, Moses Zebi Frank, Sound the great trumpet, page 371 more example
The new villages are built of mortar and brick, some of stone, and are a far cry from the villages of mudhouses.
1963, Allen J. Ellender, “United States Foreign Operations in Africa”, in Reports and Documents, volume 19, United States: Congress, page 168
Origin
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