Nissen hut
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Nissen hut
1915–20; after Lieutenant Colonel Peter N. Nissen (1871–1930), Canadian military engineer who invented it
Example Sentences
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She said she would be living in a structure like a Nissen hut - an Army structure - but had "been reassured it's quite cosy".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
Rachel Whiteread has been commissioned to create a concrete cast of a Nissen hut, sited in the middle of Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire.
From BBC ● May 15, 2018
I was in the Nissen hut, and a young woman came in and said, “It’s all over!”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2015
At that point the track's familiarity hit me: I first heard it in a Nissen hut in about 1997 at a rehearsal by the Williams Fairey Band.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2010
One very large "Nissen" hut provided an Officers' Mess, but was completely devoid of all furniture until the Colonel invented some wonderful hanging tables—table tops hung from the ceiling on telephone wires.
From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills
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