Usage of "sweathouse"

A room, often with wooden walls, which is designed for heating dry air and where steam may be produced by pouring water over hot stones.

Synonyms

Examples for "sauna"

A sauna is also needed and apparently hot chocolate helps a lot. 
 The Irish Times 

Spencer had taken this route on her way to the sauna, though. 
 Burned 

In winter, they will ski and have long debates in the sauna. 
 The Guardian 

It will include a swimming-pool, gym, sauna, steam room and juice bar. 
 The Irish Times 

I definitely do not do a sauna and ice bath every day. 
 Wired 

We all look as if we had just come out of a steambath. 
 One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b... 

The lodge had an excellent steambath. 
 A Time of Changes 

He insisted it was really about gay men watching one another fuck in public steambaths. 
 Fight Club 

I knew exactly what was happening at the Stock Exchange and what was going on in all the Staten Island steambaths. 
 Winter’s Tale 

She went to a place where she got manicures and pedicures, and another place where she took steambaths and had massages. 
 Mine 

Usage of sweathouse in English

It was a "sweathouse," an institution common to nearly all the aboriginal tribes of California. 
 A Drift from Redwood Camp 

Sweathouse through the time

Meanings of sweathouse in English