long-house
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See also: longhouse and long house
English
Noun
long-house (plural long-houses)
- Alternative form of longhouse.
- 1622, M. Alemán, chapter II, in J. Mabbe, transl., Rogue, page 355:
- To make wads and wisps for those that go to the Long-house (you know what I meane).
- 1966, G.E. Evans, chapter V, in Pattern under Plough, page 72:
- The Welsh long-houses... with long sides and opposite doors providing a passage from side to side, and dividing the building roughly in two.