Meanings
plural sunporches · alternative sun-porch · alternative sun porch
- A porch used for its abundant sunlight.
Half an hour later, Joan glanced over the moribund cactuses in the sun-porch window and saw a raincoated, hatless man, with a head like a polished globe of copper, optimistically ringing at the front door of her neighbor’s beautiful brick house.
1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2.2, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 33
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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