longhouse
- a variation of long house.
Example Sentences
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Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow said he regrets having to fight the issue in Canada’s adversarial court system rather than in a traditional longhouse, where First Nations historically settled such disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
A wooden longhouse used for meetings sits deeper in the territory, testimony to the residents’ adherence to traditional ways.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
Drivers misused the fragmentary right lane to weave, speed, then dart into the main lane just before the longhouse.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
But 28 rings in from the bark, they found the telltale 14C spike: persuasive evidence that Vikings had felled the fir and juniper trees used to build the longhouse in 1021 C.E.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2023
How this longhouse dated back hundreds of years, while the gathering site at this village dated back thousands of years.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
