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vestibule
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vestibule \Ves"ti*bule\, v. t. To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules. --Brander Matthews.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He forced the couple into the vestibule of a bank in Brunswick Street where he made them take off their clothing. ▪ Just inside the vestibule there was coconut matting, and seeing this Mum looked about then began to wipe her ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom , antechamber , entrance hall , hall , foyer , lobby ] any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A vestibule is an anteroom ( antechamber ) or small foyer leading into a larger space, such as a lobby , entrance hall , passage, etc., for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space view, reducing heat loss, providing space for outwear, etc. ...
Usage examples of vestibule.
She had not learned to love him in the vestibule of society, that court of the Gentiles, but in the chamber of torture and the clouded adytum of her own spiritual temple.
I imagine behind this vestibule, in the sacred shadow, one may say, of the araucaria, a home full of shining mahogany, and a life full of sound respectability--early rising, attention to duty, restrained but cheerful family gatherings, Sunday church going, early to bed.
Boupart himself was standing in the vestibule and Madame Aubain was tying the strings of her bonnet.
Oddly enough, the footman normally stationed near the front door had disappeared, forcing Brock to return to the vestibule.
First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
The machine walked across the vestibule, its heels clicking against the old, much-scuffed hardwood there, and it easily went up the first two steps, which was as far as it had to go to be able to proffer the datacom to Sarah.
There I found a doorless room, really only a vestibule leading nowhere, with a pair of bright-lit Pepsi machines, another vending machine offering cellophane-wrapped Oreos and Cheez-Its at the end of corkscrew spirals, and a high-mounted television set, angled as though for a bedridden patient.
Er was in het eerste oogenblik, dat zij naar binnen geleid werden, geen orde onder te houden, want zij renden juichend door de vestibule en de groote eetkamer, alles bevochtigend en bemodderend, en bassend nagevlogen door de drie, honden.
Then they crossed a parlor, a dining-room, a vestibule full of beautiful works of art, of beautiful Beauvais, Gobelin and Flanders tapestries.
Drawing one thug back into the gloomy vestibule, Goofer told him to keep the front door open.
Captain Implek or Sergeant Hathen, could you arrange for guards to be placed in the vestibule here, and around the Rotunda, and the stores-cellar entrance to the Vaults?
He cautiously stuck the lightstick through the gap, and peered round at the fifth floor vestibule.
And so in my trouble, as I walked up and down the oak-panelled vestibule of my house there in Yorkshire, I longed once more to throw myself into the arms of Nature.
There they emerged into a circular vestibule with molded pastel walls interspaced with glass panels, and began walking along one of several corridors extending away radially at forty-five-degree spacings.
All the contents of the vestibule are lumped together as the internal ear, but only the saccule portion is concerned with hearing.