longhouse
150 pxModel of a Viking longhouse from Bronze Age
Meaning
Noun
- A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malays, the Indonesians, the Vikings and many other peoples.
- An outhouse: an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
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Origin
- From long + house. Use for outhouses possibly via Whittington's Longhouse, a public toilet in medieval London, but first attested in translation of a similar French expression.
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