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Here's another one from a Dragnet episode I listened to yesterday, "sleeping porch". I imagine that ubiquitous air conditioning has done away with these in the US.
As is the case with most of the terms and phrases we've been discussing, the gradual disappearance of "sleeping porch" from the popular lexicon coincides with its gradual disappearance from the physical world. They were a common feature in much of the country, in houses built before WWII. I suspect that many sleeping porches in now old houses have been converted into indoor spaces over the ensuing decades, and that many of those that still exist in their original form are referred to by other names by the current occupants of those old houses.
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