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‖ foyer|ˈfɔɪjeɪ, fwaje|
[Fr.: see note s.v. focus n.]
1. a. = focus 4.
1878A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 157 But that when the softening follows typhus fever, puerperal, and other general diseases, the foyers will be multiple.
b. Hearth, home.
1908Daily Chron. 28 Jan. 4/6 The love of parents for their children..makes the every-day life of the foyer lovely. 1959R. Postgate Every Man is God xxiii. 210 Happy families are centripetal; they have a heart, a centre to which all the rest are attracted..there is a warm foyer of love to hold that group together.
2. Originally, the green-room in French theatres; now usually, a large room in a theatre, concert-hall, etc., to which the audience may retire during the intervals of the performances; the entrance hall of a hotel, restaurant, theatre, etc.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 263 This model foyer is to have something of the Haymarket and something of the Adelphi. 1882Harper's Mag. Feb. 327 Twice a year it is held in the foyer of the Academy of Music. 1901Dialect Notes II. 140. 1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1116 The Restaurant with Foyer is one of the prettiest Dining Rooms in London. 1915‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship iv. 77 There were at least half a dozen mothers in the foyer of the big..hotel. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. iv. 380 She had proposed to meet him in the entrance foyer of Quayne and Merrett's.
3. = focus n. 5 b.
1799Malthus Jrnl. 29 May (1966) 36 The Emperor of Russia had..been..misinformed in supposing that Hamburgh was the foyer of Democrats. 1939A. J. Toynbee Study Hist. VI. 36 A political foyer for acts of religious creation. |