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foyer

/foi-er, foi-ey; French fwa-yey/US // ˈfɔɪ ər, ˈfɔɪ eɪ; French fwaˈyeɪ //UK // (ˈfɔɪeɪ, ˈfɔɪə) //

门厅,大厅,中厅,大堂

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural foy·ers [foi-erz, -eyz; French fwa-yey]. /ˈfɔɪ ərz, -eɪz; French fwaˈyeɪ/.

    • : the lobby of a theater, hotel, or apartment house.
    • : a vestibule or entrance hall in a house or apartment.

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Examples

  • There, in the foyer of her school, stood her unmasked principal, greeting the hundreds of families who were flocking to a July 29 open house.

  • Ensure that the foyer light fixture is trendy and takes your breath away.

  • Two hours later, when I dropped to my knees in the preschool foyer and wrapped my arms around those giggling babies, I had decided I was done worrying.

  • The foyer was deserted on the day I arrived, except for a beautiful sculpture of Ganesha, a Hindu god who is viewed as the patron of the arts.

  • The closest I got was inside the foyer, where I went to collect one of three recent takeout orders and my temperature was taken near the host stand.

  • Small rooms off its graffiti-covered foyer provide shelter from the thick rain that can unexpectedly, and vengefully, hit.

  • In his rendition Charlie Sheen stands in a foyer and overturns a bucket filled with checks, not ice water.

  • He was always talking about it, whenever we'd go into a bank foyer.

  • I was sitting in a foyer called the “Diplomatic Reception Room” when President Obama walked in.

  • By far the most impressive piece of art was the bronze bust of Ennis in the foyer.

  • The foyer resembled in these conditions a ball-room, cleared for the dance, before the guests or the music had arrived.

  • She led him upstairs and along the foyer past Ralphie's room and past the small guest room to their bedroom.

  • In another moment we had crossed the tiny foyer and were standing within the artist's sanctuary.

  • The sensitive man paused for a moment in the foyer, sweeping the big circular room with a hurried glance.

  • His cab jolted to a stop and Reggie threw a bill at the driver and leaped out and raced into the foyer of his building.