Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old form of
antechamber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
antechamber .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
antechamber .
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Examples
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Then, September 11th terrorist attack would not have happened and, after a while, we would have labeled this guy as crazy because he made cost for airlines higher and made controls at airports longer for everybody… He would have been soon “downgraded” to the antichamber of History… not knowing that he actually avoided a terrorist attack… the silent hero
Earthquake Warning Was Removed From Internet - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Many of these were killed in bed with their wives; others, running away naked, were pursued by the soldiers through the several rooms of the palace, even to the king's antichamber.
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When we came to the foot of the stairs, we found a sort of antichamber full of a thick smoke, and an ill scent, which obscured the lamp that gave a very faint light.
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In particular the following words are as they appear in the original: antichamber aukwardly corruscations corse
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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From this antichamber we came into another, very large, supported by great columns, and lighted by several branched candlesticks.
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The figures in the back part of this plate represent tailors, peruke-makers, milliners, and such other persons as generally fill the antichamber of a man of quality, except one, who is supposed to be a poet, and has written some panegyric on the person whose levee he attends, and who waits for that approbation he already vainly anticipates.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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His landlord, however, acquaints him, that his appearance at the Town House cannot be dispensed with -- he attends three or four different hours of appointment, and is each time sent away, (after waiting half an hour with the valets de ville in the antichamber,) and told that the municipal officers are engaged.
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I heard the servants running across the antichamber.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard
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His landlord, however, acquaints him, that his appearance at the Town House cannot be dispensed with -- he attends three or four different hours of appointment, and is each time sent away, (after waiting half an hour with the valets de ville in the antichamber,) and told that the municipal officers are engaged.
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There are excavations so terrible thereabouts that they say they are the antichamber of Hell, and a stranger must have good courage to go far into them.
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