On 8/2/10 8:07 PM, BAR wrote:
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says...

"Harry wrote in message
m...
: ...in my upcoming adventure in replacing a sliding door with a pair of
: french doors...
:
: ...so...
:
: here is stage one...
:
: ...got the screen door off *without* cutting myself.
:
: Replacement doors are supposed to be delivered the end of this week or
: beginning of next week.
:
: I am *so* looking forward to this!
:
: I'll bet this is just as exciting as, say, watching someone else's kid
: in a full face helmet drive slowly around a dirt track on a motorbike.
:
:
:
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Damn, you're good. Care to run through the process for us klutzes?

That looks like a hallway. It can't be a room in Harry's manse it is
only 9 feet wide.




Vestibule.

vestibule, n.

(ˈvɛstɪbjuːl)

Also α. 7–8 vestible.

[ad. L. vestibulum (hence F. vestibule, OF. vestible, It., Sp. and Pg.
vestibulo), entrance-court, fore-court, entrance. The origin of the L.
word is uncertain.]

1.1 In reference to ancient times: The enclosed or partially enclosed
space in front of the main entrance of a Roman or Greek house or
building; an entrance-court or fore-court.
In some instances approximating to next.

α 1623 Cockeram i, Vestible, the porch of a dore. 1656 Blount
Glossogr., Vestible,‥a void place without the door, a Porch, an Entry.
1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Atrium, Some have mistakenly
confounded the Atrium with the porch or vestible, from which it was
distinct. 1796 Burney Mem. Metastasio II. 163 Porticos, vestibles of
temples, and other public buildings.

β a 1751 Bolingbroke Study Hist. ii. (1752) I. 19 The citizens of
Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their
houses. 1770 Langhorne Plutarch (1851) II. 1081/1 This tyrant‥would
not suffer his guards to do duty in the palace, but only in the
vestibule and porticos about it. 1791 Cowper Iliad xi. 942 While ye
on preparation of the feast Attended both, Ulysses and myself Stood in
the vestibule. 1819 Keats Lamia ii. 163 He met within the murmurous
vestibule His young disciple. 1819 Shelley Cyclops 219 [To] Throw you
as ballast into the ship's hold, And then deliver you, a slave, to move
Enormous rocks, or found a vestibule. 1891 Farrar Darkn. & Dawn i, In
its vestibule was a bronze statue, fifty feet high.

***b.1.b In modern usage: A chamber or hall immediately between the
entrance-door and the interior of a building or house (usually one of
some size), to which it gives admittance; an ante-chamber,
entrance-hall, or lobby.***