ante-camera
ante-camera · ante-cameras
An antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with…An antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with an influential person such as a pope or monarch.
Meaning
1 sensesAn antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with an influential person such as a pope or monarch.
Origin
From Middle French anticamera and its etymon Italian anticamera, with substitution of anteFrom Middle French anticamera and its etymon Italian anticamera, with substitution of ante-, originally after Spanish antecámara, itself after Italian.
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