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sweathouse

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sweat·house  (swthous)
n.
Any of various permanent or portable structures typically heated by fire or by pouring water over hot stones and used by certain Native American peoples to induce sweating, as for medicinal, spiritual, or social purposes. Also called sweat lodge.


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An outdoor village features two traditional pithouses, a tule or bulrush mat tipi, and a sweathouse set in a natural desert surrounding.
The suit is sweltering, and Wallinger pauses his performance for clandestine time-outs in his boxers to escape his private sweathouse.
In fact, over past hunts I'd spent weeks in sometimes bug-infested sweathouses, and I didn't always get a buck.
 
 
 
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