Longère

Longère in Ernée, Mayenne, France (2006)

Longère is the name (la longère in French) for a long, narrow dwelling, developing along the axis of its peak, typically inhabited by farmers and artisans and typical of the regions of Brittany and Normandy in northwestern France .[1]

## Meanings

Sketch of a longère north of Guérande en Loire-Atlantique) (2007)

Longère also means a "long wall" or "gutter wall" of a building, whether for a church or house, in Lower Brittany.

## See also

Longère à Botmeur (Finistère) (Monts d'Arrée, Lower Normandy) (2006)

* Dartmoor longhouse
* Longhouse
* Longhouses of the indigenous peoples of North America
* Neolithic long house
* Housebarn
* Quistinic
* Manoir de Mézarnou
* Moulin d'Olivet

## References

1. ↑ Les mots de la maison: vocabulaire français, anglais, allemand de l'acquisition, de la construction et de la restauration. Eyrolles. 1995. p. 157. https://books.google.com/books?id=zOEEAQAACAAJ. Retrieved 18 February 2021.

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