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

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

You're not allowed to have an attorney in there with you, although there is a door and your lawyer can stand outside in the hall or anteroom where you're allowed to consult him or her.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2023

Through the anteroom door, just ajar, she and Benjamin X heard the applause diminishing, then the familiar ringing greeting, “Asalaikum, brothers and sisters!”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey