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anteroom

[an-tee-room, -room] / ˈæn tiˌrum, -ˌrʊm /


NOUN
foyer
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He wasn’t a man to sit idly in death’s anteroom, awaiting the grim reaper.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

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 of a prominent political family’s Washington, D.C., bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 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

Salvador grabbed Lupita by the wrist and pulled her out of the anteroom to the very edge of the dance floor.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty




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