vestibule

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Over these rooms and the vestibule is the hall, indispensable as a dining-room and a play-room for the small children in wet weather and in winter.

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  1. noun A small entrance hall or passage between the outer door and the interior of a house or building.
  2. noun An enclosed area at the end of a passenger car on a railroad train.
  3. noun Anatomy A cavity, chamber, or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity: the vestibule to the ear.

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  • Over these rooms and the vestibule is the hall, indispensable as a dining-room and a play-room for the small children in wet weather and in winter. —  Russian Rambles
  • Before the vestibule is a fountain, over which preside two rivers, the Nile and the Tiber, with the she-wolf of Romulus. —  Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
  • This vestibule was also directly at the foot of the wooden staircase leading to the next floor, and was scarcely six feet in width. —  A Wanderer in Holland
  • In the vestibule is the sword of state of the Corporation of Youghal, a carved wooden cradle for which still stands in the church at that place, and over the great gateway are the arms of the great Earl of Cork, but these are almost the only outward and visible signs of the historic past about the castle. —  Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
  • East of the vestibule is a large hall, and to the south is the great library, corresponding in size, &c.; with the museum of natural history; the small library; rooms for the librarian, for apparatus, and also another large theatre. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)
 

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  1. Latin vestibulum.

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  1. from French vestibule = Spanish vestíbulo = Portuguese Italian vestibulo, from Latin vestibulum, a forecourt, entrance-court, an entrance; variously explained: (a) ‘a place separated from the (main) abode,’ from ve-, apart, + stabulum, abode (see stable); (b) ‘abode,’ from √ves, Sanskritvas, dwell (see was); (c) possibly ‘the place where the outer clothing is put on or off as one goes out or comes in,’ i. e. the place corresponding to that assigned to the modern hat-rack (cf. vestry), from vestis, garment, clothing.
  2. from vestibule, n.
 

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/ˈvɛstɪbjul/
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