isban.
/izˈba/ A Russian hut or log-house.
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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
1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. vii. 374 These houses consist of three distinct sorts, jourts, balagans, and loghouses, called here isbas.
1833 R. Pinkerton Russia 24 These simple articles compose the whole..furniture of a Russian izba.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 251/1 Her serfs, if they wanted new isbahs—alias log huts—..would get the priests..to versify their petition.
1892 Daily News 22 Jan. 6/7 The meanest Kirghis yourt was more artistically decorated than his grimy, unventilated isba.
1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 89 I was twenty-one, married, had my own izba, owned my own livestock.
1962 Observer 20 May 21/1 We lived in a tiny isba, or log cabin, together with three other families.
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