foreroom

If cheers rose from the forecastle, silence fell on the foreroom.

The parlor, called "the foreroom" at a later time, was the room where guests of station were received.

You shall be tied with walrus thongs and thrown into the foreroom, and kept there without food or drink until we reach Vinland!

Very likely he rambled on with his wonted long windedness, but the five eavesdropping in the foreroom heard no more.

I went in, and commenced to talk with the old woman; some of the boys leaned up against the door that opened into the foreroom.