Forehouse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The front or forward part or room of a house; a foyer.

    "Had she been in the fore-house, and no passage to go through to get at the street door, she had certainly been gone."

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"Had she been in the fore-house, and no passage to go through to get at the street door, she had certainly been gone."

Etymology

From fore- + house.

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