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
In Nissen huts near-by, were the machine-gun battalion and the signallers, and, as I had one end of a Nissen hut all to myself, I was very comfortable.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George
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