entrance hall
noun
: a hall located just inside or near an entrance to a building
You can leave your coat in the entrance hall.
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Cardi could be heard saying as her eldest daughter grinned in what appeared to be the entrance hall of their home.
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Jenny Haward, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
An entrance hall as long and narrow as a bowling lane opens to a spacious great room that stretches more than 35 feet long with a gleaming black marble fireplace in the living room.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2024
Yet, on a recent afternoon, as a man strode across the entrance hall in nothing but a floral pareo and a lanyard—i.e., shirtless and barefoot—no one seemed bothered in the slightest.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
Diana was 14 when her family moved into the home—which hosts over 90 rooms, including a 115-foot-long Picture Gallery lined in Tudor-style oak paneling and a double-height Georgian-style entrance hall where the People’s Princess practiced tap dancing.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
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Jenny Haward, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
An entrance hall as long and narrow as a bowling lane opens to a spacious great room that stretches more than 35 feet long with a gleaming black marble fireplace in the living room.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2024
Yet, on a recent afternoon, as a man strode across the entrance hall in nothing but a floral pareo and a lanyard—i.e., shirtless and barefoot—no one seemed bothered in the slightest.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
Diana was 14 when her family moved into the home—which hosts over 90 rooms, including a 115-foot-long Picture Gallery lined in Tudor-style oak paneling and a double-height Georgian-style entrance hall where the People’s Princess practiced tap dancing.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Entrance hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entrance%20hall. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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