Definition of Antechambers

1. Noun. (plural of antechamber) ¹

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Definition of Antechambers

1. antechamber [n] - See also: antechamber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antechambers

antecedence
antecedences
antecedency
antecedent
antecedent phrase
antecedent phrases
antecedent sign
antecedently
antecedents
antecedes
anteceding
antecessor
antecessors
antecessour
antechamber
antechambers
antechapel
antechapels
antechinus
antechoir
antechoirs
antecians
antecipate
antecipated
antecipates
antecipating
antecipation
antecipations

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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