Quonset

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Etymology

Named after Quonset Point, the place they were manufactured; the placename derives from an Algonquian language.

Pronunciation

Noun

Quonset (plural Quonsets)

  1. (US, also attributive) A prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.
    Synonym: Quonset hut
    • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59:
      They gave her a round white visitor's badge at one of the gates, and she parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long.
    • 1979, Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff:
      Besides the wind, sand, tumbleweed, and Joshua trees, there was nothing at Muroc except for two quonset-style hangars, side by side, a couple of gasoline pumps, a single concrete runway, a few tarpaper shacks, and some tents.

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