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(lôŋ′ho̵us′)

noun

the long, communal dwelling common until the 19th cent. among the Iroquoian peoples of NE North America

also written long house

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noun

A long communal dwelling, especially of certain Native American, Polynesian, and Indonesian peoples.

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