What is "anteroom"

Usage examples of "anteroom".

Upside, he called Muub and the old fool Adda to another meeting in the Palace anteroom.

In the spacious anteroom are three-way floor-length mirrors, a long vanity with tissues and cotton balls and individual mirrors, dispensers for lotions and astringent cleansers, little squirt bottles of antistatic and hairspray, nail buffers, a vending machine dispensing individual vials of various scents at a cost per ounce as exorbitant as if it were Parisian perfume.

Symbolic of the difference was the attitude of the sergeant in the anteroom who had looked at Beller with something approaching awe.

He dragged Tinker sidewise, half across the anteroom, while Bogo was hurrying up the steps.

In the anteroom a thin-faced Italian man with a goatee was cleaning his fingernails with the blade of a large pocket knife, his feet up on the desk, a Borsalino hat tipped forward over the bridge of his nose.

Beyond the glass wall that separated the anteroom from the ward, Gibbs stared.

But he returned to the anteroom to smoke three cigarettes in the twenty minutes after Kalinin had left him.

The young woman had gone into the anteroom, followed by Limousin, who did not say a word at this unexpected condition of things.

The anteroom was large--some thirty feet broad by twenty feet deep--and gave no hint that the Manzana de Oro was a gambling club.

In the anteroom of Hell, Greene guided Teal through the land of the Neutrals, where the Great Refuser, the worst offender there, could be found.

In the anteroom behind, they put on surgical masks, caps, gowns, gloves, and overshoes before passing out through another door at the opposite end.

She could see a row of slabs through the open doorway from where she sat in an anteroom.

We might not have suspected the mute Gron at all if it were not for the fact that when we televiewed the mute Gron as he entered the anteroom he was wearing a translation device in his ear.

Soon, she heard the alto tones of her servant in the anteroom below, followed by footsteps on the stone stairs that wound to the second level of her towerlike home.

A sharp knock sounded on the office door and a tall man with a seamed, weatherworn face and sharp blue eyes came in from the anteroom.