seclusion lodge

English

Noun

seclusion lodge (plural seclusion lodges)

1. (chiefly anthropology) A traditional dwelling placed apart from a community, tribe etc., for the use of those under ceremonial or taboo restrictions.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30:

     The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society.

   • 1996, Jerry D Moore, Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes, page 140:

     The seclusion lodge houses circumcision initiates, keeping them separate from the rest of the community.

   • 2006, Mary C Wright, in Kelm & Townsend, In the Days of our Grandmothers, p. 265:

     The birth lodge, the puberty rite lodge, the menstrual seclusion lodge, as well as the family dwelling built and owned by the woman, show that previously the Plateau-built environment was almost exclusively under women's purview.