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

Elliott notes that a Picasso painting hangs in the anteroom to a prominent political family’s Washington, D.C. bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

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

The censure prevents Ms. Zephyr from being admitted to the House floor, anteroom or gallery.

From Washington Times • May 1, 2023

The children screamed hysterically at the first sight of the needle and their mothers, waiting in the anteroom, threw their shawls over their heads and keened loudly as if wailing for the dead.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith