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long-house

long-house

See also: longhouse and long house

English

Noun

long-house (plural long-houses)

  1. Alternative form of longhouse.
    • 1622, J. Mabbe translating M. Alemán's Rogue, Ch. ii, p. 355:
      To make wads and wisps for those that go to the Long-house (you know what I meane).
    • 1966, G.E. Evans, Pattern under Plough, Ch. v, p. 72:
      The Welsh long-houses... with long sides and opposite doors providing a passage from side to side, and dividing the building roughly in two.