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Voorhuis or voorkamer (front room)
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The room into which the main entrance leads. It is a term applied to such a room in a T-plan, I-plan or 'two-rooms-deep' house [see Alphabet plans] where there is a room behind. It serves mainly as a reception room.
(Walton, 1993: 111)