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ante-room|ˈæntɪruːm|
[after Fr. antichambre or It. anticamera.]
A room before, or forming an entrance to, another.
1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 200 An anti-room at St. James's. 1854Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1876) VI. xli. 239 His ante-rooms were thronged with clients of all sorts. 1858Sears Athan. III. x. 338 Whatever our place, if we are doing its work well, it is the anteroom of heaven. |