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English
Noun
anti-room (plural anti-rooms)
- Obsolete form of anteroom.
1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. , volume I, London: T Cadell, Jun. and W Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell) , →OCLC, pages 7–8:[G]oing to her own apartments, which conſiſted of a large anti-room that divided her dreſſing room and bed room from that where her children were, ſhe bade her woman who ſlept in the latter, go to bed, ſaying ſhe herſelf ſhould not to night ſit up to read, as was very frequently her cuſtom.
1807, , chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. , volume I, London: J F Hughes, , →OCLC, page 100:[H]e walked into the anti-room—the most delightful perfumes scented the apartments from large and rich vases, which stood at small distances from each other.
1820, The Trial of Her Majesty, Queen Caroline, Consort of George IV. for an Alledged Adulterous Intercourse with Bartolomo Bergami; Comprising the Whole of the Proceedings since Her Arrival in This Country, London: T. Kaygill, , page :One entered into a dark anti-room, and after that into a small corridor or passage, then there were two rooms, and after the two rooms the sleeping-room.
1875, Henry Bedford, A Vacation Ramble in Germany, page 25:[S]tatues stand in the midst of them, museums have their walls covered with them, and the very saloons where oil paintings hang, have their anti-rooms and staircases decorated with frescoes.