DCHP-3

sweating bath

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

See: sweat-bath(def. 1),sweat-house

Quotations

1872
We passed one or two deserted tents, and "sweating booths," but no Indians.
<i>c</i>1902
The man-smell is as acute to the beast's nose as the rank fur-animal-smell is to the man's nose; and the first thing that an Indian who has had a long run of ill-luck does is to go to a native "sweating-bath" and make himself clean.