quonset

plural quonsets

1. Alternative letter-case form of Quonset.

plural Quonsets · alternative quonset

1. USalsoattributiveA prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.

   They gave her a round white visitor's badge at one of the gates, and she parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long.

   1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59

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   Besides the wind, sand, tumbleweed, and Joshua trees, there was nothing at Muroc except for two quonset-style hangars, side by side, a couple of gasoline pumps, a single concrete runway, a few tarpaper shacks, and some tents.

   1979, Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

   Synonyms: Quonset hut