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Quonset Point
41.5950°N -71.4150°W · Q1748229
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Quonset Point. It sits in United States.
Quonsetnoun · 20th century
Well attestedThe wartime hut is named for a point in Rhode Island.
The design was first produced in 1941 at Quonset Point naval base. The name became generic for the shape.
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Quonset hutnoun · 1941
Well attestedThe all-American hut is a copy of a British one, named in Narragansett.
The US Navy had the design worked up in 1941 at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, adapting the British Nissen hut of the First World War so that untrained crews could bolt one together in hours. The place name itself is Narragansett in origin, from the long low point of land the base was built on.
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