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# An [[unheated]] [[enclosure]] outside the [[entrance]] to a [[house]] or [[hut]] in the [[arctic]], often used for [[storage]]. |
# An [[unheated]] [[enclosure]] outside the [[entrance]] to a [[house]] or [[hut]] in the [[arctic]], often used for [[storage]]. |
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Latest revision as of 09:25, 21 September 2020
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[edit]snow porch (plural snow porches)
- 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.