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The handshake of a house, deciding your mood before you've taken off your shoes.
means The space just inside a building's entrance, where you cross from outside to in.
from A plain American compound, joining "entry" with "way." "Entry" arrived through Old French entree, from Latin intrare, "to go in" (built on intra, "within"). "Way" is the deep old Germanic root for a path or road, a cousin of Latin via. So "entryway" is literally a way in — two words bolted together by speakers who liked their architecture spelled out.
- feng shui
- Called the mouth of chi, where energy enters
- shoe limbo
- Where civilization battles whatever you tracked indoors
- genkan
- Japanese entryways sit lower, marking sacred outside-inside divide
- first impression
- Realtors say buyers decide within seconds of entering
- key purgatory
- Birthplace of every lost-keys panic in history
the met's great hall — metropolitan museum of art's iconic 270-foot-wide limestone entrance in new york city
grand central terminal — architectural masterpiece serving 750,000 daily commuters through its main concourse since 1913
versailles hall of mirrors — 73-meter-long gallery entrance to the royal palace's most famous room, completed 1684