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ML: A communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.

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  • They wove in what's called a longhouse, a traditional Montagnard structure.
  • The longhouse was a fair distance away.
  • Her words rever-berated the length of the longhouse.
  • He had lived in the girl's longhouse for some months.
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