All 4 Uses

anteroom
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On the Beach
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She lunched with the Americans at the end of one of the long tables, and took coffee with them in the anteroom.†
Chpt 2 *

anteroom = a room leading to a larger or more important room
He took her to the cabin and went back to the anteroom himself to wait for her.†
Chpt 2
Dwight Towers had telephoned to him to meet him at ten forty-five in the anteroom to the office of the First Naval Member.†
Chpt 9
There was practically no one in the building; he walked up tothe anteroom and there he found Dwight Towers in uniform, and alone.†
Chpt 9

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)