Quonsetn.

Brit.

/ˈkwɒnsᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈkwɔnsət/,

/ˈkwɑnsət/

Forms: 1900s– Quanset (irregular), 1900s– Quonset, 1900s– Quonsett (irregular). Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Quonset.

Etymology: < the name of Quonset Point, a peninsula and former U.S. Navy base in Rhode Island, where the type of building was first made in 1941.

Originally and chiefly U.S.

I. Compounds.

1. Quonset hut. A prefabricated building consisting of a semi-cylindrical corrugated metal roof on a bolted steel foundation. In Britain called a Nissen hut (see Nissen hut n. at Nissen n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of

lonquhardc1480

hothouse1643

ajoupa1666

penthouse1683

pandal?1692

bark-hut1744

log-tent1748

log cabin1770

bush-hut1775

log-hut1778

yurt1780

isba1784

beach hut1806

whare1807

bough-house1811

pondok1815

grass hut1818

hartebeest house1818

leaf hut1818

gunyah1820

grass house1823

slab-and-bark hut1826

slab-and-shingle hut1826

slab whare1826

rondavel1829

bush-house1835

skerm1835

jacal1838

toldo1839

log-shanty1847

wurley1847

maloca1853

palm hut1853

whare1853

hutmenta1857

bush-shanty1857

benab1860

pondokkie1862

bothan1863

lanaia1869

hogan1872

tenta1873

beehive-hut1884

leaf shelter1886

Oklahoma1889

goondie1890

cabana1898

troolie hut1899

tukul1901

fale1902

banda1908

kya1909

hut1913

obi1913

Nissen hut1917

Nissen1919

basha1921

tourist cabin1928

bunkie1935

wanigan1937

Quonset hut1942

chickee1943

iron lung1943

Quonset1943

1942 Chicago Tribune 1 Mar. i. 4/2 The navy calls the prefabricated steel houses ‘Quonset huts’ because they are made in Quonset, Rhode Island.

1949 ‘P. Michaels’ This Perverse Generation viii. 67 From sturdy, roomy architectural loveliness to quonset hut—civilization marches on!

1977 Time 27 June 48/2 The final dozen hippies..last week evacuated their grimy quonset hut on the edge of town.

1996 S. King Desperation iii. iii. 434 Cars and trucks had started to show up in the parking lot of the Quonset hut that served as mining headquarters.

2004 R. Banks Darling (2005) 335 I finished the renovation of the prison and had completed transferring the dreamers from the Quonset hut.

2. attributive. Designating structures made from corrugated metal, or which have a tunnel-like construction.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [adjective] > type of

log cabin1770

beehive-shaped1858

shack1885

Quonset1945

1945 Chicago Tribune 5 Aug. i. 20 (advt.) Tomorrow's greatest building values, like today's great ‘Quonset’ buildings, will be framed in versatile Stran-Steel.

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. xiii. 90 A tremendous aluminum Quonset warehouse.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 82 She parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long.

1991 M. Halvorson To Everything a Season 53 As I was closing the Quonset doors after putting the tractor away, I heard a sound. It sounded like a cow.

II. Simple uses.

3. = sense 1.A proprietary name in the U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of

lonquhardc1480

hothouse1643

ajoupa1666

penthouse1683

pandal?1692

bark-hut1744

log-tent1748

log cabin1770

bush-hut1775

log-hut1778

yurt1780

isba1784

beach hut1806

whare1807

bough-house1811

pondok1815

grass hut1818

hartebeest house1818

leaf hut1818

gunyah1820

grass house1823

slab-and-bark hut1826

slab-and-shingle hut1826

slab whare1826

rondavel1829

bush-house1835

skerm1835

jacal1838

toldo1839

log-shanty1847

wurley1847

maloca1853

palm hut1853

whare1853

hutmenta1857

bush-shanty1857

benab1860

pondokkie1862

bothan1863

lanaia1869

hogan1872

tenta1873

beehive-hut1884

leaf shelter1886

Oklahoma1889

goondie1890

cabana1898

troolie hut1899

tukul1901

fale1902

banda1908

kya1909

hut1913

obi1913

Nissen hut1917

Nissen1919

basha1921

tourist cabin1928

bunkie1935

wanigan1937

Quonset hut1942

chickee1943

iron lung1943

Quonset1943

1943 Los Angeles Times 28 Apr. ii. 5/2 Performances were given in mess halls and even smaller places, sometimes by merely combining two quonsets.

1946 New Yorker 16 Mar. 22/1 The first American~made Nissens, or Quonsets, were sent to England under lend-lease in June, 1941.

1994 This Country Canada Spring 28/2 Just 35 years ago, Elks' Hall was a grain Quonset.

1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 109 Four corrugated Quonsets and kiln-baked earth and air that swam and shimmered like the area behind jet engines.

2006 V. Vinge Rainbows End 121 The campus had reverted to a woodsy, low-density style, with buildings that might just as well have been prefab Quonsets.

Compounds

Quonset-design, Quonset-roofed, Quonset-shaped adjs.

ΚΠ

1959 E. Tunis Indians 32/2 There seems to have been a quonset-shaped house, too, in Virginia and North Carolina.

1988 G. Prater Snowshoeing (ed. 3) v. 63 Quonset- and dome-design tents have become more popular recently.

2005 New Yorker 11 Apr. 60/1 We were let into a Quonset-roofed building with an elliptical stained-glass window taking up the entirety of one end.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quonset
释义	Quonsetn. Brit. /ˈkwɒnsᵻt/, U.S. /ˈkwɔnsət/, /ˈkwɑnsət/ Forms: 1900s– Quanset (irregular), 1900s– Quonset, 1900s– Quonsett (irregular). Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Quonset. Etymology: < the name of Quonset Point, a peninsula and former U.S. Navy base in Rhode Island, where the type of building was first made in 1941. Originally and chiefly U.S. I. Compounds. 1. Quonset hut. A prefabricated building consisting of a semi-cylindrical corrugated metal roof on a bolted steel foundation. In Britain called a Nissen hut (see Nissen hut n. at Nissen n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1942 Chicago Tribune 1 Mar. i. 4/2 The navy calls the prefabricated steel houses ‘Quonset huts’ because they are made in Quonset, Rhode Island. 1949 ‘P. Michaels’ This Perverse Generation viii. 67 From sturdy, roomy architectural loveliness to quonset hut—civilization marches on! 1977 Time 27 June 48/2 The final dozen hippies..last week evacuated their grimy quonset hut on the edge of town. 1996 S. King Desperation iii. iii. 434 Cars and trucks had started to show up in the parking lot of the Quonset hut that served as mining headquarters. 2004 R. Banks Darling (2005) 335 I finished the renovation of the prison and had completed transferring the dreamers from the Quonset hut. 2. attributive. Designating structures made from corrugated metal, or which have a tunnel-like construction. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [adjective] > type of log cabin1770 beehive-shaped1858 shack1885 Quonset1945 1945 Chicago Tribune 5 Aug. i. 20 (advt.) Tomorrow's greatest building values, like today's great ‘Quonset’ buildings, will be framed in versatile Stran-Steel. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. xiii. 90 A tremendous aluminum Quonset warehouse. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 82 She parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long. 1991 M. Halvorson To Everything a Season 53 As I was closing the Quonset doors after putting the tractor away, I heard a sound. It sounded like a cow. II. Simple uses. 3. = sense 1.A proprietary name in the U.S. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1943 Los Angeles Times 28 Apr. ii. 5/2 Performances were given in mess halls and even smaller places, sometimes by merely combining two quonsets. 1946 New Yorker 16 Mar. 22/1 The first American~made Nissens, or Quonsets, were sent to England under lend-lease in June, 1941. 1994 This Country Canada Spring 28/2 Just 35 years ago, Elks' Hall was a grain Quonset. 1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 109 Four corrugated Quonsets and kiln-baked earth and air that swam and shimmered like the area behind jet engines. 2006 V. Vinge Rainbows End 121 The campus had reverted to a woodsy, low-density style, with buildings that might just as well have been prefab Quonsets. Compounds Quonset-design, Quonset-roofed, Quonset-shaped adjs. ΚΠ 1959 E. Tunis Indians 32/2 There seems to have been a quonset-shaped house, too, in Virginia and North Carolina. 1988 G. Prater Snowshoeing (ed. 3) v. 63 Quonset- and dome-design tents have become more popular recently. 2005 New Yorker 11 Apr. 60/1 We were let into a Quonset-roofed building with an elliptical stained-glass window taking up the entirety of one end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1942
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