vestibule

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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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  • One of the first objects that attracted my attention upon entering the vestibule was a baby's wicker wagon, standing in one corner. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • But now the columns both outside and inside the vestibule were almost shattered to pieces, and the façade was stricken with age. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#1
  • After you cross the vestibule, which is dark, you crouch to pass through the low, rock-cut archway by which you enter the tomb. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • One of the first objects that attracted my attention when entering the vestibule was a baby's wicker wagon, standing in one corner; it was much such a carriage as all mothers are familiar with; such as figures largely in the history of almost every family. —  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2
  • There is neither a sign nor a vestibule, and a person stumbling in early, before sepia-toned bonhomie sets in, can get the feeling of having missed a secret password. —  The New Yorker
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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, Sanskrit √ vas, 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.
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/ˈvɛstɪbjul/
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