English Explanatory Dictionary

ante-camera

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with an influential person such as a pope or monarch.

Word forms

ante-camera ante-cameras anti-camera

Etymology

From Middle French anticamera and its etymon Italian anticamera, with substitution of ante-, originally after Spanish antecámara, itself after Italian.

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