sweat lodge


noun
  1. (among native North American peoples) a structure in which water is poured onto hot stones to make the occupants sweat for religious or medicinal purposes

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How to use sweat lodge in a sentence

  • Well, first you must go to the sweat-lodge, and purify yourself so that you can pray to Getanittowit, the Great One.

    Running Fox | Elmer Russell Gregor
  • No Klamath or Modoc sweat-lodge can be properly called a sweat-house, as is the custom throughout the West.

    Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages | J.O. Dorsey, A.S. Gatschet, and S.R. Riggs
  • You shall build the lodge like the world, round, with walls, but first you must build a sweat-lodge of one hundred sticks.

    Blackfeet Indian Stories | George Bird Grinnell
  • There he immediately built a fire and heated stones for the first sweat lodge.

    Wigwam Evenings | Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman
  • Upon the great stone heating in the fire within the sweat-lodge an Indian lad poured water.

    Diane of the Green Van | Leona Dalrymple