salle d'attente

The head of Bronzino’s Lucrezia Panciatichi, set against a 19th-century train station waiting area in “Salle d’Attente,” becomes a dramatic performance of the baroque monotony of passing time.

I can see one now stretched out on the floor on a rug in the small salle d'attente at Susa, quite exhausted and absolutely indifferent to the outside world.

It was a large, barely furnished apartment, like the salle d'attente at the Northern Railway Station at Paris.

"La salle d'attente is gloomy enough," said one of my companions, "and yet some of us may be very sorry to leave it."

While in your dismal salle d'attente I wait And with forgotten Punches idly toy, How it will reconcile me to my fate To muse upon the mouth-wash you employ.