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sleeping porch
noun
- a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sleeping porch1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
Greenleaf examined the kitchen, the unoccupied bedroom, the bathroom, and the sleeping porch at the back of the house.
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At about one o'clock—or between one and two—she thought she heard a sloppy footstep near the sleeping porch.
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Bristow turned off the lights in the living room and went to his dressing room to prepare for bed on the sleeping porch.
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When we opened the door down stairs there was no sign of Blanche, but such noise as was issuing from this sleeping porch!
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Also, as a compromise, he built a sleeping porch on the second story.
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