Nissenn.

Brit.

/ˈnɪsn/, U.S.

/ˈnɪs(ə)n/

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

Etymology: < the name of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Norman Nissen (1871–1930), Canadian mining engineer, who invented this type of hut while serving with the Royal Engineers.

British (originally Military).

I. attributive.

1. Nissen hut n. a tunnel-shaped hut made of corrugated iron with a cement floor.In the U.S. called a Quonset or Quonset hut (see Quonset n.).

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

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1917 E. F. Wood Notebk. of Intelligence Officer 224 Recently I met the inventor of the now famous Nissen hut.

1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 114 These nissen huts if hiding could Your eye inseeing from Firm fenders were.

1943 C. Beaton Diary Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiii. 114 We were all herded into an already overcrowded vast Nissen hut in which the temperature..was below freezing point.

1948 G. Greene Heart of Matter iii. i. 191 I would never go back there, to the Nissen hut, if it meant that she were happy.

1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 72 There's a glorified Nissen hut—a bit of youth club—on the site.

1988 Independent 15 Aug. 1/4 Crick and Watson discovered the Double Helix structure of DNA in old Nissen huts.

1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) i. 27 He had been held with about thirty others in Nissen huts down by the docks.

II. absol.

2. = Nissen hut n. at sense 1.

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