Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the quotation.
- noun In tanning, a building in which the depilation of hides and skins is performed by sweating.
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Examples
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They would stand guard to make certain he didn't fall asleep during the vigil, and Anda would join all the men in the sweat-house ceremony while Shandi waited with the women in the drum-circle outside.
Elephant in the City 2010
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Kel's words acted like that bucket of cold water after the sweat-house ceremony; they shocked him awake.
Elephant in the City 2010
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Those to the left and immediately at the door began crawling out, Shaman Celin first; although Darian was still trying to wrap his mind around what he'd just seen, he managed to respond when Kala nudged him and joined the rest to crawl in single-file out the sweat-house entrance.
Elephant in the City 2010
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Given that the notes to that piece begin "No Klamath or Modoc sweat-lodge can be properly called a sweat-house..."
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A fresh-water lagoon, or lake, was near the present corner of Montgomery and Sacramento, and an Indian temescal, or sweat-house, beside it.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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Indians, whether from the continual use of the sweat-house, or from their filthiness, or the little ventilation in their habitations, are weak and unvigorous; spasms and rheumatics, to which they are so much subject, are the consequences of their customs.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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They said, "The white men's medicine is better than our sweat-house."
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Katherine Chandler
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On the Bidwell ranch is an old Indian "temescal," or sweat-house.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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They must build a sweat-house beside a creek, sweat there all night and bathe regularly, after which they must rub their bodies with branches of spruce.
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They must build a sweat-house beside a creek, sweat there all night and bathe regularly, after which they must rub their bodies with branches of spruce.
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