sleeping porch
noun
: a porch or room having open sides or many windows arranged to permit sleeping in the open air
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Highlights include a media room and a sleeping porch, along with a spacious fireside living room topped with a statement chandelier.
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Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 May 2025
This home has three bedrooms and a sleeping porch, two and a half bathrooms, a fireplace, a lawn, and deck.
—Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 2025
What was to be our living quarters was one minuscule bedroom with a bathroom, a single closet, and a small sleeping porch for me.
—Fannie Flagg, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
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Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 May 2025
This home has three bedrooms and a sleeping porch, two and a half bathrooms, a fireplace, a lawn, and deck.
—Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 2025
What was to be our living quarters was one minuscule bedroom with a bathroom, a single closet, and a small sleeping porch for me.
—Fannie Flagg, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
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“Sleeping porch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleeping%20porch. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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