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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

sweathouse

/swet-hous/US // ˈswɛtˌhaʊs //

汗蒸房,汗屋,汗蒸馆,汗蒸屋

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sweat·hous·es [swet-hou-ziz]. /ˈswɛtˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.

Examples

  • One of these, Tah-nah-kum-chut-te, he says contained a sweathouse having a capacity of 200 people.

  • Driver says that this was a "small town" with no sweathouse, and that the people sweated at Unutsawaholma.

  • Besides the sweathouse site, seventeen house pits were counted.

  • Near the sweathouse I emptied my revolver into the carcasses of three warriors.

  • Here there still stand the xonta nikyao, "house big," and the taikuw nakyao, "sweathouse big."

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