long house
See also: longhouse and long-house
English
editNoun
editlong house (plural long houses)
- Alternative form of longhouse.
- 1751, C. Gist, Journals, page 51:
- They marched in under French Colours and were conducted into the Long House.
- 1753, George Washington, Diary, volume I, page 50:
- We met in Council at the Long House.
- 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, volume I, Preface, page vi:
- ... where the ‘long house’, or Great Council Fire, of the nation was universally admitted to be established.
- 1894 May 1, Sarawak Gazette, page 67:
- The practice of herding together in ‘long houses’ prevents mental and moral improvement and hinders advance in gardening and planting and agricultural developement generally.
- 1912, Hose & al., Pagan Tribes of Borneo, Vol. I, Ch. iv:
- The Kenyah village frequently consists of a single long house.