salle d'attente

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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.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various

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

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

There, in the salle d’attente, he found Aristide mounting guard over his wife’s luggage.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec

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.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

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

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James