Examples of 'longhouse' in a sentence
Meaning of "longhouse"
Longhouse (noun) - A long and narrow single-room building traditionally used as a communal residence by Native American tribes in the Northeastern United States. The longhouse often served as a dwelling for multiple families and was essential for community gatherings and ceremonies
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- A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
- An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
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You have to move out of the longhouse.
It resembles the longhouse in its details.
Iroquois lived in a communal dwelling known as a longhouse.
A longhouse provides an unforgettable setting for a scrumptious feast.
One common example of this form is the longhouse.
The longhouse is constructed as a unique place of living and worship.
Ten brothers lived together in a longhouse.
A longhouse is a whole village of a community under one long roof.
Their traditional dwelling was the longhouse.
The families of a longhouse shared the harvest of those fields.
Village girls playing in the longhouse.
The longhouse is a place of beauty.
Who played in this longhouse.
A longhouse housed many families.
The people used the longhouse as a metaphor for life.
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I spent the first six years actually living in a longhouse.
There has been a longhouse on this site for at least fifty years.
This is brought to the longhouse.
The mission of LongHouse is to exemplify living with art in all forms.
I shall build a longhouse.
A very long longhouse may have fifty to one hundred family rooms.
A tall structure with flags has been erected in front of the longhouse.
Many cultures regard the longhouse as the earliest form of a permanent structure.
This is thought to have been a hof associated with the longhouse residence.
The longhouse was big enough so whole families could live together in them.
Overnight in the longhouse.
Longhouses have a door and apartment for every family living in the longhouse.
In the old villages large extended families would inhabit a large longhouse.
Other types descended from the prehistoric longhouse or other building traditions.
This longhouse is a traditional structure where an entire village lives under one roof.
The preparation of food also seems to have been a communal activity at longhouse settlements.
The longhouse is the main centre and explains the matriarchal system and clans.
To stay in a longhouse.
The women of a matrilineage and their spouses and children live together in a longhouse.
Staying in a longhouse.
When the man successfully retrieves the feather he dances a short victory circuit around the longhouse.
The very keen can rent the longhouse and spend the night there.
The centre of the community and heart of their nomadic culture is the longhouse.
The ruins of a longhouse built by the Vikings.
You must go back to the Longhouse.
The Tsawwassen longhouse was bulldozed because it was in the way.
If the village was large enough it could contain a wooden longhouse and even defensive palisades.
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The Iroquois lived in a type of dwelling known as a longhouse.
There are two European longhouse types that are now extinct.
He is head man of the Longhouse.
They set fire to the longhouse and start killing Indians.
This attraction is known as the largest Viking longhouse ever found.
An Iban longhouse may still display head trophies or antu pala.
He will be the head man of his Longhouse in two years.
