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anteroom
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The entire flat consisted of a single room with a curtain setting off the first five or six feet from the rest and therefore forming a kind of makeshift anteroom.†
Chpt 4

anteroom = a room leading to a larger or more important room
She stood up from the toilet, flushed it, and went into the anteroom.†
Chpt 4 *
Standing there in the anteroom, she tried to withstand the strong desire to burst out crying in his presence.†
Chpt 4
She kept picturing the following scene: She had come out of the toilet and her body was standing in the anteroom naked and spurned.†
Chpt 4
She imagined what it would have been like if the woman standing in the anteroom had been one of Tomas's mistresses and if the man inside had been Tomas.†
Chpt 4
And what had he been up to for so long in that miniature anteroom?†
Chpt 4
Whathad he been up to in that anteroom?†
Chpt 4
In the course of his suspiciously long absence, the engineer could only have been setting up a movie camera in the anteroom.†
Chpt 4

Definitions:

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