sun-traps

Updated: May 9, 2025

But the houses were glazed all along their fronts with the sun-traps which we had noted in the Basque country, and which do not wait for a certain date in the almanac to do the work of steam-heating.

William Dean Howells - Familiar Spanish Travels

This lateral extension of the house, constructed according to his own plans, was, like its designer, somewhat eccentric in character. The three rooms were semicircular, all window on the southern garden front, veritable sun-traps, with a low sloped roofing of grey-green slate to them, set fan-wise. Such was the house at Deadham Hard when Mr. Verity's labours were completed.

Lucas Malet - Deadham Hard

Never were such sun-traps as these strips of towns along this island bank, only a few inches above sea level and swept by every wind that blows. Hugging the coast, which is fringed with tamarisk and an occasional shumac, we come next to Porto Secco, another tiny settlement among vegetable gardens.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Venice