chantier

lumberjack's headquarters

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Small crudely built timber hut with patched plank walls and simple corrugated roof, visibly makeshift but intact, isolated on small ground patch; no residents, poverty caricature or text.

noun

shanty

SHAN-tee/ˈʃænti/

A small, roughly built hut.

Etymology

shantyCanadian Frenchlumberjack's headquarters

Shanty is said to come from chantier, meaning a lumberjack's headquarters. On that account, a name for a logging base became a word for a rough dwelling.

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