mud room

American  

Or mudroom

noun

1. a vestibule or other area in a house, in which wet and muddy clothes or footwear are removed.

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Etymology

Origin of mud room

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

I only have to glance at them now to remember all the times I’d make an entrance through the mud room, head straight to the coffee pot and pour some into one of those mugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

The next tip is to consider using an end cabinet in a kitchen, mud room or laundry room as a pet bed.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2024

If you sense you are about to step into a sword-and-sandal epic with a mud room, you would not be altogether wrong.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Picked them up each day, labeled with our names, in a kind of common mud room where enormous self-service crocks of sweet tea and lemonade were always full and cold.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2015

Tête Rouge’s sick chamber was a little mud room, where he and a companion attacked by the same disease were laid together, with nothing but a buffalo robe between them and the ground.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert