sweat lodge †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a hut, wigwam, etc. used for taking sweat-baths (def. 1), originally a practice of Indians.

Quotations

1891

The other was sitting by the child tending it, and squatting inside the sweat lodge were the five medicine men.

1963

The crossed, bent-over willows so often seen in the bush are the frameworks of Indian sweat lodges.