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sauna n.

from sauna "sauna": a room or house for taking steam baths by the Finnish method, i.e. in steam produced by throwing water on hot stones; such a steam bath.

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  "Then they took him to their dugout and kept him as a mascot for several days, feeding him, giving him drinks, taking him to sauna, and watching him dance ripaska-pikku ryssää." Eloise Engle & Lauri Paananen, The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland 1939-1940, 1973, p. 98.
• "It was stiflingly hot and muggy, like a sauna." Peter F. Ostwald, Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius, 1998.
• "A guest had gone into the sauna, only to find that when it got too hot she couldn't get out again." Sarah Dunant, Under My Skin: A Hannah Wolfe Mystery.
• "Most people thought it was a fine idea that had a snowball's chance in a sauna." Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country, 1996.
• "According to the Russian cameraman, 'It was hot like a sauna and the smell was horrible.'" Abandoned to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages.
• The Sauna, by Rob Roy, 1997.
• The Art of Sauna Buildung, by Bert Jalasjaa, 1981.
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sisu n.

from sisu "stamina, (colloquial) guts".

• "Thorby started the usual inquiries, found that it [the spaceship] was the Free Trader Sisu, registered home port New Finlandia, Shiva III." Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy, 1982, p. 44.
• "Sisu, combined with violence which is the counterpart of the loving-kindness of the Finn, had always made him a dangerous adversary in war." Eloise Engle & Lauri Paananen, The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland 1939-1940, 1973, p. 84.
• "On the sidelines Thomas constantly hollers 'Sisu! Sisu!' at her charges." Stephen Cannella, Kevin Cook, et al., "Been There, Done That: Bea Thomas, 86, is in her 63rd year as a coach", Sports Illustrated, Nov. 2, 1998.
• "Stephen Holden Critic's Choice column recommends Finnish film series at Museum of Modern Art, starting with Aki Kaurismaki's new movie Drifting Clouds; photo; adds that Finnish cinema since 1917 has flourished on 'sisu,' Finnish quality of hardiness and pluck." Stephen Holden, "Finnish Fortitude Behind the Despair", The New York Times, Apr. 24, 1998.
• "Sisu refers not to the courage of optimism, but to a concept of life that says, 'I may not win, but I will gladly give my life for what I believe.'" Aini Rajanen, Of Finnish Ways, 1981, p. 10.
• Sisu, by Sue Harrison, 1997.
• Toivo, a Man with Sisu, by Elaine Root, 2000.
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Suomi n.

from Suomi "Finland": the Finnish name for Finland; a kind of submachine gun.

• "And even Voronov had been mistaken about the value of the Finns' Suomi submachine gun." Eloise Engle & Lauri Paananen, The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland 1939-1940, 1973, p. 70.
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