DCHP-1 Online

sweat lodge † 

• a hut, wigwam, etc. used for taking sweat-baths (def. 1), originally a practice of Indians.

  See also: sweat-bath (def. 1)  sweat-house  

  • 1891  The other was sitting by the child tending it, and squatting inside the sweat lodge were the five medicine men.
  • 1963  The crossed, bent-over willows so often seen in the bush are the frameworks of Indian sweat lodges.