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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vestibule /ˈvɛstɪbjuːl/
noun
  • 1 an antechamber or hall just inside the outer door of a building.
  • 2 Anatomy a chamber or channel opening into another, especially in the inner ear.
– derivatives
vestibular adjective (Anatomy),
vestibuled adjective.
– origin C17 (denoting the space in front of the main entrance of a classical Roman or Greek building): from Fr., or from L. vestibulum ‘entrance court’.



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