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Definition of Antechambers
1. antechamber [n] - See also: antechamber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antechambers
Literary usage of Antechambers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"The surrounding antechambers and corridors.—33. The nurseries.—34. Their walls
and partitions.—35. Their position varied according to the exigencies of the ..."
2. Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Baireuth by Wilhelmine, Helena Augusta Victoria (1888)
"Nobody received me except one of my sisters, who met me in one of the antechambers.
Neither did I see my brother, and this added much to tny discomposure. ..."
3. The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1901)
"Their misfortune is to be perpetually waiting in antechambers, and losing time
in them. Grammars and dictionaries are antechambers ..."
4. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1900)
"They are something terrible, those antechambers, and there are many, very many
of them in ... In those antechambers I dreamed away a fair year of my life. ..."
5. The Cathedral Church of Gloucester: A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief by Henri Jean Louis Joseph Massé (1898)
"These antechambers are all of early thirteenth-century date, with a good deal of
excellent work remaining about the windows. " Between the church and the ..."
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