sleeping porch

noun

: a porch or room having open sides or many windows arranged to permit sleeping in the open air

Examples of sleeping porch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west. —

David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024 Residential builders soon caught on, and by the early 1900s, sleeping porches were appearing in homes from Minneapolis to Brooklyn, New York. —

Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024 The second floor includes a sleeping porch and the home’s large primary bedroom, which includes a fireplace, steam shower, and whirlpool tub. —

Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2024 Privacy, Please In their heyday, sleeping porches were often screened to keep bugs at bay. —

Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for sleeping porch

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Word History

First Known Use

1915, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of sleeping porch was in 1915

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“Sleeping porch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleeping%20porch. Accessed 20 Aug. 2024.

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