sleeping porch

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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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Origin of sleeping porch

First recorded in 1880–85

He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.
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I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana.
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As the agents apprehended and detained the man, the dog remained unleashed, and ran down the hill to where Marino was sleeping.
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The seven-year-old Detroit girl was sleeping on the couch as her grandmother sat next to her watching television.
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Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
The reveillée of the sleeping Mexicans was the discharge of our two field-pieces loaded with canister.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
In truth, it was so intently engaged with a sleeping seal that it had not observed the approach of the sledge.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Sarah was standing on the porch again wiping her hands on her apron, looking away toward the fields.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden