Forehouse

Quick meaning: Forehouse is a noun meaning The front or forward part or room of a house; a foyer.

Meaning

The front or forward part or room of a house; a foyer.

Example Sentences

Had she been in the fore-house, and no passage to go through to get at the street door, she had certainly been gone.

Richard Eltringham of Auckland St Andrew, farmer, had a forehouse or hall with only one chair, one table, two cupboards, along with brass and [...]

Central-lobby-entry houses overcame this hardship with a front door from which kitchen and forehouse could be entered independently, and by providing the kitchen with its own external rear door.

It consisted of a forehouse where he had a table, four chairs, a longsettle, a dresser, his pewter and 'other necessarys' which probably included the hearth furniture and cooking utensils; a parlour with chairs, a coffer and a spinning wheel; [...]

Word Forms

• forehouses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foredoor, foreside, frontage, shirtfront, frontal, forward.

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