sweat bath

noun

A traditional Native American sweat lodge.

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Meanings

nounsweat bath (plural sweat baths)

plural sweat baths

  1. A traditional Native American sweat lodge.

    He was still thinking about that after the sweat bath, when the Quiet One was, with humble pride, helping him to dress for the council at which he would relate what his medicine had told him to do.

    1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 40
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