long house

long house
a communal dwelling, esp. of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 ft. (30.5 m) in length.
[1615-25]

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long house,
a large communal dwelling oertain North American Indians, especially the Iroquois, and various tribal societies in southeastern Asia, Borneo, New Guinea, and elsewhere. Many families live together in one long, usually rectangular, house.

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