Hut (dwelling)
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A hut is a small and crude shelter, usually used for dwelling. Huts have often been used as temporary shelter by displaced persons, or by shepherds during the transhumance, seasonal movement of livestock between mountainous and lowland pastures, or also by collectors in the wilderness, such as in rubber plantations in the Amazon jungle. Huts quickly built of natural materials such as ice, leather, fur, straw, palm leaves, mud exist in practically all nomadic peoples. Some of them are easily transportable.
In a metaphorical sense, hut is used also to name commercial stores, companies and concepts that try to transmit the idea of a cozy place in a corner where you can get things, such as in Pizza Hut. Huts built in parks or public places are sometimes used to sell food and other wares.
See also
- Hut for other meanings
- Hut for huts that are not specifically dwellings
- Alpine hut
- Quonset hut
- Nissen hut
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