long-house

See also: longhouse and long house

English

Noun

long-house (plural long-houses)

1. 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.