snow porch

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snow porch (plural snow porches)

  1. An unheated enclosure outside the entrance to a house or hut in the arctic, often used for storage.
    • 1963, Symposium on Antarctic Logistics, Held at Boulder, Colorado, August 13-17, 1962:
      Each hut design incorporates a "snow porch". The snow porch provides a buffer space between covered way and the hut, cool-room doors being fitted to both covered way and hut entrances.
    • 2008, Clarissa W. Confer, Daily Life in Pre-columbian Native America, →ISBN, page 188:
      Extra food could be stored in the snow porch, which protected it from predators.
    • 2012, M. J. McGrath, The Boy in the Snow, →ISBN:
      They went into the snow porch, tamped the ice off their boots and removed their three layers of mittens and gloves, their snow goggles, hats and parkas.

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