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

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Example Sentences

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mud room

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 woman, who was awakened by a crashing sound and her dog growling, discovered a cinnamon-colored black bear weighing about 100 pounds in her mud room, officials said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

Laundry rooms can be upstairs near the bedrooms or downstairs in the mud room.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2016

True, I have a second broom resting by the front door and another tucked away in the mud room.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2014

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 Charles Herbert Sylvester

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