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antechamber

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an⋅te⋅cham⋅ber

  [an-tee-cheym-ber]
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–noun
a chamber or room that serves as a waiting room and entrance to a larger room or an apartment; anteroom.
Origin:
1650–60; earlier antichamber < F antichambre, as trans. of It anticamera, equiv. to anti- (< L ante- ante- ) + camera chamber
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an·te·cham·ber   (ān'tē-chām'bər)   
n.  A smaller room serving as an entryway into a larger room.

[French antichambre : anti-, before (from Latin ante-; see ante-) + chambre, chamber (from Old French chaumbre; see chamber).]
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Word Origin & History

antechamber 
1656, from Fr. antichambre, on analogy of It. anticamera (see ante and chamber).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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