hutment
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hutment
Example Sentences
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They are men of caste status in an army hutment, an odd lot indeed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the motorcade of vets went to the empty C.W.A.C. hutment at Lansdowne Park, settled another nine families.
From Time Magazine Archive
Assigned by General Eisenhower fortnight ago to help bombed-out Londoners through their housing crisis, they had their first temporary hutment erected by last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is now undertaking to raise $1,000,000 for the National War Service and it is preparing a hutment equipped with libraries, daily newspapers, games, light refreshments, etc., in every camp in France.
From The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Hill, Grace Livingston
Whenever we had got our ordnance issues distributed we entrained for Bourguette on the 28th and from there marched a few miles to a hutment camp at La Lacque.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.
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