"ice delivery door" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ice delivery doors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ice delivery door (plural ice delivery doors)
  1. (architecture, historical) A small exterior door to a house that opens to a built-in icebox (“cold food storage unit cooled by ice”) ice container compartment, so that the ice delivery man can place fresh ice directly into the ice container in an ice box. As iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, these doors fell out of use and were no longer built. Tags: historical Synonyms: ice door Derived forms: ice door Coordinate_terms: coal delivery door, milk delivery door
    Sense id: en-ice_delivery_door-en-noun-5x7gl2ep Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Architecture Topics: architecture

Alternative forms

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