ANTECHAMBER


Meaning of ANTECHAMBER in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber.

In addition to which, Kenamun had taken care to keep them waiting an hour in an unventilated antechamber before seeing them.

Outside this office was a smaller room, little more than an antechamber .

Paradise it was not; but at least it resembled something like its antechamber .

Such places are the antechamber to the penitentiary.

The antechamber which he entered was filled with silent N'pani.

The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist's waiting-room.

Two female slaves were tending a small fire in a brazier in the antechamber , and when Burun entered they veiled themselves.

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