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

See Examples For:

mud room

That’s why houses have entryways or a mud room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

The bumped-out great room has been transformed into a combination mud room, kitchen and dining room.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

This opened at last and I entered a mud room in one end of which a fire of sticks blazed fitfully.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck