What is "antechambers"

Usage examples of "antechambers".

Instead, the rock-cut passage changed into a wider corridor, which debouched into a series of antechambers and at last into a large pillared room where the bearers stopped and lowered the litters to the floor.

As we proceeded through a series of antechambers and short corridors, I began to hear a strange sounda murmur like the magnified buzzing of a nest of wasps.

And that did not suit him at all, for he was well over sixty and hated waiting in cold antechambers and parading eau des millefleurs and four thieves’ vinegar before old marquises or foisting a migraine salve off on them.

But, as we have said, in the first antechambers he had stopped, solely to avoid mingling with all those happy existences which he felt were moving around him in the adjacent salons.

The antechambers that formed a circle around the main Hall of Audience, themselves connected to the front part of the temple by a series of winding corridors.

He passed open antechambers and audience halls and feasting chambers, and came finally to the end of the corridor and his throne room.

On impulse she took the hallway to the right, past other rooms and antechambers, deeper into the palace.

However, there’s a dominant belief that some – we would call them Masters – can move through what are known as Gateways in the dreams themselves and into the Antechambers of the Threshold to the Great Dream itself.