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1
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins
- the arriving national guardsmen were forced to live in a hutment until permanent barracks could be constructed
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- barracks,
- cantonment,
- installation,
- laager
- [South African],
- leaguer,
- post
2
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling
- a group of shabby hutments that had been erected to shelter the refugees
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The first known use of hutment was in 1889
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