Definition of "long-house" [long-house]

• A house of great length, particularly a communal dwelling of the Iroquois and of other North American tribes, or a communal house of the natives of Borneo. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Indeed missionaries are a great source, even if sometimes their cultural innocence gets them into trouble; like when one Micronesian tribe required human sacrifice to the Gods for the dedication of a long-house, usually supplied by slaves captured in raids from other tribes."
• "Within the long-house, the temperature matched the humidity."
• "It did not help matters, either, that the hut was less than a hundred paces from the principal long-house of the Star Brothers 'guards."