sweathouse

American  

[swet-hous] / ˈswɛtˌhaʊs /

noun

PLURAL

sweathouses

1. (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.

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Example Sentences

Their two-person, wood-fired sauna, which appears modern, sleek and Scandinavian, shares all the defining elements of a traditional Irish sweathouse: a window with a view of the land, a living grass roof and a dark interior.

From New York Times

A sweathouse is made, as on the previous day.

From Project Gutenberg

In the afternoon, the fourth and last hundred-willow sweathouse is built and used.

From Project Gutenberg

A society brings in willows and a hundred-willow sweathouse is built.

From Project Gutenberg

According to our information, the four camps of the medicine woman was the rule in olden times and a hundred-willow sweathouse was made at each camp.

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