Meaning of Quonset | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.
   US, also, attributive
2. Alternative letter-case form of Quonset.
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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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