A front entrance, vestibule.

The entrance-room or vestibule of a house; hence, the lobby or entrance passage.

(a) a door or other entranceway at the side of a building (in quot. 1680 figurative); (also) a porch, lobby, etc., next to such an entranceway; (b) B…

Architecture. A lobby or vestibule enclosed with folding doors and ceiling, as within the porch of a church, to prevent the direct passage of…

In modern usage: A chamber or hall immediately between the entrance-door and the interior of a building or house (usually one of some size), to…

a passage, room, etc., leading to, or serving as, an entrance; an entrance hall; an entrance porch.

a hall situated at the entrance of a house or other building.

The name of an octagonal vestibule lighted by a small oval window in the palace at Versailles where, before the Revolution of 1789, members of the…

In a Cape Dutch house, an entrance hall, or a room into which the front door opens; a front room or sitting-room.

= voorhuis, n. Occasionally partially anglicized as fore-kamer.

A court. In a modern house, a central hall or glassed-in court that may be used as a sitting-room, having rooms opening off it, sometimes at more…

An entrance-hall or passage leading to various rooms in a house or building.

a chamber constructed on the inner side of a doorway to keep the wind out.

a small vestibule, spec. one in which wet or muddy footwear may be left as one enters a house.