earliest forms of CABIN. Still sometimes used for the sake of local coloring (French or Canadian).
1866. W. R. King, Sportsm. & Nat. in Canada, xii. 316. Huts or cabans are built for this purpose on the frozen surface of the river.
1866. Cornh. Mag., Nov., 500. He … walked down the garden to his ‘cabane,’ a small wooden sentry-box facing the sea. Ibid., 533. He could sit contentedly talking for hours in his cabane.
