Meaning of snow porch | Babel Free

Definitions

An unheated enclosure outside the entrance to a house or hut in the arctic, often used for storage.

Examples

“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.”

“Extra food could be stored in the snow porch, which protected it from predators.”

“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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