foreroom

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ room.

Noun

foreroom (plural forerooms)

1. A room near the entrance of a building; a front room
   • 1978, Arctic Anthropology volume xv, number 1, 1978:

     Further up there are two summer rooms, a foreroom, and a kitchen.

   • 2006, Jack Coggins, Soldiers and Warriors: An Illustrated History - Page 101:

     Hard and bloody was the defense of the foreroom men (the foreroom was the space just aft of the foredeck) and the stem-defenders, for in both those places the gunwale was the highest and the men picked.

   • 2009, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Leif the Lucky: A Story of the Vikings - Page 160:

     It is my belief that he would like it better to die than to venture into the dark of the foreroom.

   • 2014, L. S. King, Sword's Edge:

     She did not want to join the Rangers in the foreroom. She wanted to be alone.