foyer

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Open to the foyer is a formal dining room with double tray ceilings and living room with soaring ceilings 2 stories high.

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  1. noun A lobby or anteroom, as of a theater or hotel.
  2. noun An entrance hall; a vestibule.

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  • This is the foyer, which is kind of a garden structure. —  Frank Gehry as a young rebel
  • The lift opens on the foyer, which is, apparently, imposing. —  Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
  • In the middle of the foyer is the openwork lift to the next floors. —  Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
  • Leading from the foyer is a bathroom suite, and door to the robot and mechanical storage hatches under the house, a kitchen and servicery, and the wine cellar. —  Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
  • To the left of the foyer was a double door that gave directly onto the morgue operation. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
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  1. French, social center, from Old French foier, fireplace, from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin, neuter of focārius, of the hearth (unattested sense), from Latin focus, fire.

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  1. French, hearth, fireside, green-room, lobby of a theater, focus, ect., from Middle Latin focarius, hearth, properly Adj., from Latin focus, hearth, fireplace (later F. feu, fire): See focus.
 

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