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vestibule

[ves-tuh-byool] / ˈvɛs təˌbjul /


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Details make all the difference in the small powder room by Rebecca J. Hansen, who explains that both the room and the nearby vestibule are focused on mixing patterns while keeping a consistent color palette.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

Inside the bright vestibule, the face of a protective Gorgon glowers at the visitor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Taking the photographs in a vestibule at the end of a carriage, Edwards taped a large bag to the opposite window to reduce the glare - though the train conductor was not so happy.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024

Julia Andreasen, a graduate student at UM, was trapped in her tent for 24 hours after drifting snow buried the vestibule.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024

Beyond them is a small vestibule with a set of sealed, lockless doors at the other end.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Then White went to her old neighborhood in Southeast, sleeping in building vestibules.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

Some schools had security vestibules at their entrances and buzz-in systems to get inside from the outdoors.

From Salon ● May 27, 2022

In fact, Ruthroff says, vestibules first became popular architectural features during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022

Back then, the trains on all three railroads were hauling record loads, and passengers routinely stood shoulder to shoulder in the aisles and vestibules of every car.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021

On the street, in vestibules as well as house parties, they are spectacular, moving like taut silk or loose metal.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

“Here is Stony Junction,” Dorothy remarked, as the trainman let in a gust of wind from the vestibuled door to shout out the name of that station.

From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose

For his apparel would have been more in place in the bare colonist cars of the first section than in the vestibuled, luxurious rear coaches of the second.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

It was a wearisome task, especially when Wallace accompanied her, for his tastes ran to expensive and vestibuled apartments and fashionable streets.

From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Strange, almost apologetic, it sounded after its years of silence; not at all like the throaty bellow of derision with which the long, vestibuled coast trains thundered through the forsaken village.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Over the vestibuled entrance rises the western tower.

From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose




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