vestibule
/ˈvɛ.stəˌbjul/ nom C2En français : vestibule
- A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building. · Near-synonym: foyer
- A large entrance hall in a temple or palace.
- An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
- Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.
- The central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear or the parts (such as the saccule and utricle) of the membranous labyrinth that it contains.
- The part of the left ventricle below the aortic orifice.
- The part of the mouth outside the teeth and gums.
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Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect of their nearer connection.
She was met in the vestibule by Lydia, who, flying to her, cried in a half whisper, “I am glad you are come, for there is such fun here!
As soon as he appeared in the Count of Morcerf’s antechamber, a footman, the same who at Rome had brought the count’s card to the two young men, and announced his visit, sprang into the vestibule, and when he arrived at the door the illustrious traveller found his carriage awaiting him.
The count turned up his sleeves, and passed into the little vestibule where the gentlemen were accustomed to wash their hands after shooting.
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