voorhuisn.
/ˈvʊəheɪs/, /ˈfʊəheɪs/, U.S. /ˈvʊ(ə)rˌheɪs/, /ˈfʊ(ə)rˌheɪs/, South African English /ˈfʊəheɪs/ South African.
In a Cape Dutch house, an entrance hall, or a room into which the front door opens; a front room or sitting-room.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule
fore-entry1535
hall1663
entrance hall1677
side entry1680
tambour1728
vestibule1730
entryway1746
entry hall1753
oeil-de-boeuf1785
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
atrium1864
hallway1877
wind-porch1899
mud room1950
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room
parlourc1384
street parlour1734
sitting room1763
keeping-room1771
room1795
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
lounge1881
sitkamer1897
sitter1899
sit1911
1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. i. vi. 118 At about half an hour after nine, all retired to rest; some to a mat on the floor in the voorhuis (entrance-room, or hall).
1867 E. L. Layard Birds S. Afr. 118 Perhaps one or two would have found their way into the voorhuis, or entrance-hall.
1923 O. Schreiner Thoughts on S. Afr. 17 The great clean, bare ‘voorhuis’ (front room) with its mud floors and its chairs and sofa with reimpje seats.
1946 Cape Times 16 Nov. (Week-end Mag.) 4 The thatched cottage..had only two rooms; a voorhuis and bedroom.
1981 Notes & Queries June 193/2 The voorhuis was the large central space or hall, often running right through the house, off which the other rooms opened.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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