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sweating house
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a hut, wigwam, etc. used for taking sweat-baths (def. 1), originally a practice of Indians.
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1743
. . . they then take about 20 Large stones, and heat them hott in the fire, in another tent, when hott, they put them into their hutt or swetting house. . . .
1820
The ceremony took place in a sweating house . . . erected for the occasion by the worshipper's two wives.