entryroom

plural entryrooms

1. A room at the entrance of a structure.

   Five of the Tikchik houses had entryrooms or stormsheds at the outer end of the tunnels (H-1, 2, 4, 7, 8).

   1968 October 14, James W. VanStone, “The Houses”, in Tikchik Village: A Nineteenth Century Riverine Community in Southwestern Alaska (Fieldiana: Anthropology; volume 56, number 3), [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 236

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   In the hallways and entryrooms, the exits and entrances, the overflow jostled each other for position, sweatered girls jumping excitedly trying to see over the people in front of them, jacketed boys standing on tiptoe.

   1962, Edmund Schiddel, chapter 15, in Scandal’s Child: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 211

   The small entryroom is hung with Mr. [Bruno] Frost's paintings, and thus it is full of rich and unabashed color, abundant life and, of course, beauty.

   1973 April 15, June Blum, “Shop Talk”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2026