Quonset
See also: quonset
English
Alternative forms
- quonset
Etymology
Named after Quonset Point, the place they were manufactured; the placename derives from an Algonquian language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɒnsɪt/
Noun
Quonset (plural Quonsets)
- (US, also attributive) A prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.
- Synonym: Quonset hut
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 59:
- They gave her a round white visitor's badge at one of the gates, and she parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long.
- 1979, Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff:
- Besides the wind, sand, tumbleweed, and Joshua trees, there was nothing at Muroc except for two quonset-style hangars, side by side, a couple of gasoline pumps, a single concrete runway, a few tarpaper shacks, and some tents.
See also
- Nissen hut (UK)