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anteroom
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War and Peace
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The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom.†
Chpt 1 *

anteroom = a room leading to a larger or more important room
"How about my son Boris, Prince?" said she, hurrying after him into the anteroom.†
Chpt 1
There was no one in the anteroom; empty bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.†
Chpt 1
Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask table linen, he would call Dmitri Vasilevich, a man of good family and the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the enormous table would say: "Well, Dmitri, you'll see that things are all as they should be?†
Chpt 1
Then one of those conversations began which last out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses and say, "I am so delighted...Mamma's health...and Countess Apraksina..." and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put on cloaks or mantles, and drive away.†
Chpt 1
And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.†
Chpt 1
"Are you going to Count Cyril Vladimirovich, my dear?" said the count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: "If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us.†
Chpt 1
This door led into a back anteroom.†
Chpt 1
A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.†
Chpt 4
Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the Club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.†
Chpt 4
As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage with lanterns, standing at the entrance.†
Chpt 4
Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of a servant.†
Chpt 5
Anton, a man who had looked after Prince Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom.†
Chpt 5
Boris, hearing a strange voice in the anteroom, came out to meet him.†
Chpt 5
During his service, chiefly as an adjutant, Prince Andrew had seen the anterooms of many important men, and the different types of such rooms were well known to him.†
Chpt 6

anterooms = rooms leading to larger or more important rooms
Count Arakcheev's anteroom had quite a special character.†
Chpt 6

anteroom = a room leading to a larger or more important room
He told the count of his interview with Sila Andreevich (Kochubey spoke of Arakcheev by that nickname with the same vague irony Prince Andrew had noticed in the Minister of War's anteroom).†
Chpt 6
While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh—a laugh such as one hears on the stage.†
Chpt 6
"Uncle" led the visitors through the anteroom into a small hall with a folding table and red chairs, then into the drawing room with a round birchwood table and a sofa, and finally into his private room where there was a tattered sofa, a worn carpet, and portraits of Suvorov, of the host's father and mother, and of himself in military uniform.†
Chpt 7
The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies—frightening and funny—bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaiety, crowded, at first timidly, into the anteroom, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom where, shyly at first and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing, dancing, and playing Christmas games.†
Chpt 7
"Well, the Lord have mercy on us!" said the count, half in jest, half in earnest; but Natasha noticed that her father was flurried on entering the anteroom and inquired timidly and softly whether the prince and princess were at home.†
Chpt 8
Natasha felt offended by the hesitation she had noticed in the anteroom, by her father's nervousness, and by the unnatural manner of the princess who—she thought—was making a favor of receiving her, and so everything displeased her.†
Chpt 8
In Marya Dmitrievna's anteroom the footman who helped him off with his fur coat said that the mistress asked him to come to her bedroom.†
Chpt 8
Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh.†
Chpt 8
Pierre, from club habit, always left both hat and stick in the anteroom.†
Chpt 9
But Sonya, who had gone to look for the papers in the anteroom, had found them in Pierre's hat, where he had carefully tucked them under the lining.†
Chpt 9
God has sent you!" exclaimed deeply moved voices as Rostov passed through the anteroom.†
Chpt 10
The anteroom and reception room of his house were full of officials who had been summoned or had come for orders.†
Chpt 11
From the anteroom Berg ran with smooth though impatient steps into the drawing room, where he embraced the count, kissed the hands of Natasha and Sonya, and hastened to inquire after "Mamma's" health.†
Chpt 11
The count nodded affirmatively, and Natasha, at the rapid pace at which she used to run when playing at tag, ran through the ballroom to the anteroom and downstairs into the yard.†
Chpt 11
A tall, bald-headed old man with a red nose, wearing a dressing gown and with galoshes on his bare feet, stood in the anteroom.†
Chpt 11
He was conducted through a glass gallery, an anteroom, and a hall, which were familiar to him, into a long low study at the door of which stood an adjutant.†
Chpt 12
When the princess came out of the countess' room Nicholas met her again, and with marked solemnity and stiffness accompanied her to the anteroom.†
Chpt 15
At that moment they heard the sound of the door pulley and footsteps in the hall and anteroom, as if someone had arrived.†
Chpt 15
Natasha ran with light footsteps to the anteroom.†
Chpt 15
As I entered the anteroom I heard Andrusha's peals of laughter and that meant that all was well.†
Chpt 15

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(1) (anteroom)
a room (such as a waiting room) leading to a larger or more important room
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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