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Meanings of lake dwelling in English

Spanish
vivienda lacustre

Dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages.

        vivienda lacustre
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        Examples for "pile dwelling"
        Examples for "pile dwelling"
        1
        Small terra-cotta figures, found in the Laybach pile dwellings.
        Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
        2
        Small terra-cotta figures, from the Laybach pile dwellings.
        Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
        3
        We do not meet in the pile dwellings with the common mouse, the rat, or the cat, and the horse is very rare.
        Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
        4
        We meet with pile dwellings in our own day in the Celebes, in New Guinea, in Java, at Mindanao, and in the Caroline Islands.
        Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
        5
        On the one side were gardens and the low rambling buildings of the convent, and on the other were huddled high- piled dwellings of poverty.
        The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
        Usage of lake dwelling in English
        1
        Compare them with the following from the lake dwellings of Switzerland:
        Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
        2
        Hand-made pottery and rude tissues of flax are found in neolithic lake dwellings in Switzerland.
        Science in Arcady
        3
        When the use of bronze was discovered the people still lived on in their lake dwellings.
        English Villages
        4
        These are none other than lake dwellings, similar to those first discovered in Switzerland about fifty years ago.
        English Villages
        5
        Switzerland is famous for its numerous clusters, or villages, of ancient lake dwellings, which were of considerable size.
        English Villages
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        The piles of the Swiss Lake dwellings, which are in a state of good preservation, are of prehistoric age.
        Handwork in Wood
        7
        It scraped the mud out of the interior of its lake dwellings, until it reached more or less dry earth.
        Letters from France
        8
        Such a habitation, like the Swiss lake dwellings, afforded remarkable advantages of position in case of attack by a hostile tribe.
        The Life of Columbus
        9
        As regards the Lake dwellings, I have been able to submit to comparative examination nearly every single skull that has been found.
        Oriental Religions and Christianity / A Course of Lectures Deliv...
        Translations for lake dwelling