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Quonset hut

[kwon-sit]
–noun Trademark.
a semicylindrical metal shelter having end walls, usually serving as a barracks, storage shed, or the like, developed for the U.S. military forces from the British Nissen hut at Quonset Naval Base in Rhode Island.

Quonset hut 
1942, from Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island, where this type of structure was first built, 1941.
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