anteroom

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One space, the first floor anteroom, is lined with red and gold silk, with centuries-old paintings hanging on the walls and an elaborately decorative fireplace standing beside a huge floor-to-ceiling window.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

The manager and another staffer ushered her mother and sister into an anteroom that wasn't large enough for the three of them and peppered Ani with questions about her mother's mental stability.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

A spare anteroom, a desk, a red phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024

The affidavit recounts how someone identified only as “Witness 5” was seen on multiple days carrying either cardboard or bankers’ boxes in and out of the anteroom.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2023

Before long we were waiting in an anteroom of the palace alongside other girls from schools all over the country.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez