vestibule

• 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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