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antechamber

[an-tee-cheym-ber] / ˈæn tiˌtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
foyer
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It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

He was looking into the antechamber of the tomb of Tutankhamun, a ruler who sat his throne for only around 10 years but did so at a pivotal time in Egyptian history.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022

Dr. Reeves proposed that the tomb was, in fact, merely an antechamber to a grander sepulcher for Tutankhamun’s stepmother and predecessor, Nefertiti.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022

As darkness blanketed the city, the only spectacle left was in parliament, where teenagers and young men bedded down for another night on the mattresses they have laid out in the grand antechamber.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022

They stopped dead at the sight of the girl and the tiger standing together in the glittering, lamplit antechamber.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks




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