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log cabin orig. U.S.
[log n.1]
A cabin, or small house, built of logs.
1770in H. R. Shurtleff Log Cabin Myth (1939) 25 The court doth appoint..to agree with a workman to build a log cabbin..for a Court House. 1803F. Asbury Jrnl. (1821) III. 119 Kindness will not make a crowded log cabin, twelve feet by ten, agreeable. 1817S. R. Brown Western Gaz. 48 There are six families living in log cabins. 1835Southern Lit. Messenger I. 546 Most of the log cabins have been exchanged for neat white cottages. Ibid. II. 53 We behold the low log-cabin of a school-house. 1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 427 The husband will fell timber, run up a log cabin, and receive ready money from the steam-boats, which burn the wood. 1881W. M. Thayer (title) From log-cabin to White House: the story of President Garfield's life. 1937A. Huxley Let. 3 June (1969) 421 We have a log cabin..on Frieda Lawrence's ranch. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 26/6 (Advt.), Advertiser..has original log cabin for disposal. 1974Guardian 23 Jan. 11/1 America has always frenetically nurtured its pioneer myths... Log cabins, and old Abe Lincoln.
attrib.1819R. L. Mason Narr. in Pioneer West (1915) 54 It is very common for a log cabin tavern without a door or window (perhaps a log out to answer both purposes) to sup and lodge twenty persons. 1840Nashville (Tennessee) Whig 17 Aug., They are the representatives of a hardy race of honest log cabin pioneers. 1840Boston Atlas 11 Sept., Crow,..For the Party laid low By the log-cabin boys Of old Tippecanoe. 1841Congress. Globe 22 June 92 Mr. Clark of New York said all this log-cabin slang was quite out of date. 1887Harper's Mag. Dec. 36/1 Reluctantly she slipped her book under the log-cabin quilt, and said ‘Come in’. 1965A. Colby Patchwork Quilts 78 Log cabin quilts were popular in England and America from about the middle of the nineteenth century, and were so called because the square blocks were composed of a square centre patch surrounded by strips of material or ‘logs’..overlapped..in much the same fashion as the log cabins were built. 1973Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 4 Dec. 46/3 Boulder Flat, a log-cabin settlement at 11,000 feet, from which the last inhabitant departed more than one hundred years ago.
Add:2. A pattern in patchwork, quilting, etc., in which overlapping strips or squares of material are arranged in adjoining squares suggestive of the patterning of wood in a log cabin.
1887Harper's Mag. Dec. 36/1 Reluctantly she slipped her book under the log-cabin quilt and said ‘Come in’. 1907‘E. C. Hall’ Aunt Jane of Kentucky 57 There seemed to be every pattern that the ingenuity of woman could devise..‘four patches’, ‘nine patches’, ‘log cabins’, [etc.]. 1943R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 129 The old coverlet patterns had life running through them; Log Cabin, Castle City, [etc.]. 1965A. Colby Patchwork Quilts 78 Log cabin quilts were popular in England and America from about the middle of the nineteenth century, and were so called because the square blocks were composed of a square centre patch surrounded by strips of material or ‘logs’..overlapped..in much the same fashion as the log cabins were built. 1978N. Jones Embroidery 62/3 The usual arrangement of colours in log cabin is dark on two adjacent sides, light on the two sides opposite. 1991Dorris & Erdrich Crown of Columbus x. 170 He was sprawled on my favorite log cabin quilt and had not removed his shoes. |