sweathouse

[ swet-hous ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural sweat·hous·es [swet, -hou-ziz].

(especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.

One of these, Tah-nah-kum-chut-te, he says contained a sweathouse having a capacity of 200 people.

Driver says that this was a "small town" with no sweathouse, and that the people sweated at Unutsawaholma.

Besides the sweathouse site, seventeen house pits were counted.

Near the sweathouse I emptied my revolver into the carcasses of three warriors.

Here there still stand the xonta nikyao, "house big," and the taikuw nakyao, "sweathouse big."

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