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Quonset

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Quon·set  (kwnst)
A trademark used for a prefabricated portable hut having a semicircular roof of corrugated metal that curves down to form walls. This trademark often occurs in attributive contexts in print: "a Quonset building that once stored grain" (Chicago Tribune).
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Quonset (hut)®
n (US) → Nissenhütte f


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Cleared of a deadly menace which still lurks elsewhere along Bagram's perimeter, the complex of cinderblock, containers, Quonset huts and high barbed-wire fences will hold 675 inmates by the year end.
3000sf Quonset style warehouse with attached 600sf office.
The existing Quonset hut building on North Main Street, constructed in the 1940s, no longer meets department needs or state and federal regulations.
 
 
 
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