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Meanings of pile 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 "lake dwelling"
Examples for "lake dwelling"
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
Usage of pile dwelling in English
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
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