I stepped into the...
Picture, if you will, Regency England...
1849: entranceway
1833: foyer
1746: entryway
1813: Erica's book
entranceway: what Erica's heroine erroneously stepped into
/sigh
Viva search & replace...
Friday, August 22, 2008
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Foyer: What Darcy suggested.
And what Darcy uses in her book in 1816. Dangnabit.
And I'm seeing entranceway as an Americanism 1860-65 in dictionary.com.
FWIW, I think I came across something somewhere that suggested the proper British term for that part of a house was "entry hall" or perhaps "entrance hall." I'll have to see if I can dig it up. (Maybe it was on Gaelen Foley's website?)
Oh, argh. I think I have "foyer" all over my books. Must make note.
Couldn't "entry" do?
Just checked google books - there are uses of the word "foyer" in books during the period (it was already a French word, and high-society English people knew French, of course), but those instances all seem related to the theater. Hm.
oh, regency england...why are your words so complicated and old?
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