sweathouse
[ swet-hous ]
noun,plural sweat·hous·es [swet-hou-ziz]. /ˈswɛtˌhaʊ zɪz/.
(especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- Also called sweat lodge .
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How to use sweathouse in a sentence
One of these, Tah-nah-kum-chut-te, he says contained a sweathouse having a capacity of 200 people.
The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California | Sherburne Friend CookDriver says that this was a "small town" with no sweathouse, and that the people sweated at Unutsawaholma.
The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California | Sherburne Friend CookBesides the sweathouse site, seventeen house pits were counted.
California Athabascan Groups | Martin A. BaumhoffNear the sweathouse I emptied my revolver into the carcasses of three warriors.
The Battle of Atlanta | Grenville M. DodgeHere there still stand the xonta nikyao, "house big," and the taikuw nakyao, "sweathouse big."
California Athabascan Groups | Martin A. Baumhoff
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