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

The dancing lodge, the sweathouse, etc., were still standing and all these were just as noted among the Piegan.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark

Robes for covering the sweathouse are borrowed from the people of the camp.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark

When you return to your people and wish to make an offering to me, you must first build a sweathouse and there make your offerings.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark

This song is for the morningstar: "Morningstar says let us have a sweathouse."

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark

Should there be more than one medicine woman, another sweathouse is made on the east side of the camp circle and the others grouped around them equally.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark