ice delivery door

== English == === Noun === ice delivery door (plural ice delivery doors) (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.) Synonym: ice door Hypernym: door Coordinate terms: milk delivery door, coal delivery door ==== Related terms ====