anteroom
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editanteroom (plural anterooms)
- A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
- 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 19, in Tarzan the Untamed:
- [T]his was one of the anterooms off the main throneroom in which the king was accustomed to hold court with his entire retinue.
- 1997, Michael McKenzie, Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs:
- Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.
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editantechamber — see antechamber