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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the bench or platform inside an igloo, used for sleeping and usually at the original snow level, the remaining space being an excavation where cooking and eating and other activities are carried on. [See picture at igloo.]
Quotations
1936
. . . she stooped to replace the duly aired blankets on the sleeping-stage. Then she restored the snow-beater to its hook.