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Definition
a room leading to a larger or more important room — especially a waiting room
- In the dark cubbyhole of Cameron's anteroom stood a desk with a telephone and a typewriter.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (75% in)
- Then, stepping out of the studio into an anteroom full of waiting newsmen, Toohey said: "No, of course I won't press any charges.2.3 — Part 2 Chapter 3 (43% in)
- In the eyes of two reporters who emerged from an elevator in the lobby; in the pose of the elevator man who fought a desire to turn and stare back at him; in the sudden immobility of all the men in his anteroom, in the break of a typewriter's clicking on the desk of one secretary, in the lifted hand of another—he saw the waiting.4.15 — Part 4 Chapter 15 (4% in)
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