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