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longhouses

n. (plural of longhouse English)

Usage examples of "longhouses".

The enemy longhouses were immediately set ablaze, the fleeing villagers hunted down and slain and relieved of their heads, wherever they happened to fall.

In the surrounding shade stood a pair of active longhouses on piles at least fifteen feet high, each structure decorated in a flowing skein of interlocking spirals and curls, organic shapes, the living geometry of trees and leaves and vines amid which peeked here and there the same singularly human face of a blandly cheerful disposition.

Already a dozen longhouses striped the hillside and sent smoke curling into the blue-white sky.

Along the curve of the bay, distant and mostly obscured by haze, he saw the tiny cottages and longhouses marking Osna village up on its rise overlooking the strand.