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sweathouse

[ swet-hous ]

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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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.

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There was Andy with his frizz of wooly black hair, and Harry who had lost his right thumb to a sweathouse loom, and Joe, who could slip a ring from your very finger and you wouldn’t even feel a thing.

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A sweathouse is made, as on the previous day.

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

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

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