as in foyer
the entrance room of a building please leave your wet boots in the vestibule

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Recent Examples of vestibule The precinct’s glass windows were shattered after officers fired their weapons inside the vestibule. Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025 The post-dinner dancing was held in the club’s library, which was decorated in jewel-green tones and had a bar vestibule attached. Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025 An entry foyer displaying a curving staircase introduces the house, with a wide set of steps emptying out at a vestibule that flows to an elegant living room spotlighted by a walk-in bay window and French doors spilling outside. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025 Cut to this week, as America exited the presidential vestibule between Biden and Trump, and SNL had to establish its tone for Trump 2: The Squeakquel. Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vestibule
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vestibule
Noun
  • Roche used the approach in her foyer, hanging wallpaper and doorway curtains in the same painterly stripe.
    Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The central foyer, illuminated by a massive skylight, serves as a welcoming hub that connects all four performance spaces.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Let students reach for their phones in the hallways, or while eating, or in homeroom, or whatever.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Court documents paint a picture of a night filled with odd sounds, unknown voices, panicked texts, unanswered calls and a shadowy figure in the hallway – all in the setting of a college town that hadn’t experienced a murder since 2015.
    Taylor Romine, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Last Saturday evening, a recent Columbia University graduate student named Mahmoud Khalil was greeted in the lobby of his apartment building, in Morningside Heights, by four plainclothes agents from the Department of Homeland Security.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Arrested in a Manhattan hotel lobby in September, Combs is facing life in prison if found guilty.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Vestibule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vestibule. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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