anterooms

plural of anteroom
as in lounges
a small room that is connected to a larger room and used as a place for people to wait before going into the larger room

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Noun
  • Last month, the carrier’s top executives described new initiatives such as making making bigger and higher-end airport lounges and refreshing interiors for long-haul planes.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 20 July 2026
  • In Qantas lounges, Starward Nova whisky appears in the Plum on Sour with lemon and bitters.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pyramiden, Svalbard ​​Cups remain on tables, newspaper clippings are still pinned to the walls, and skiing equipment is left in the hallways of the buildings at Pyramiden, a Russian coal mining settlement in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
    Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026
  • Lopez met with The Club’s HOA board to discuss safety concerns that homeowners said were caused by overcrowded units, such as a shaking elevator that dropped multiple floors and water leaking into hallways.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
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  • From pre-war apartment building vestibules to farmhouse bathrooms to kitchen backsplashes, penny tiles have graced spaces of all kinds since their inception in the early twentieth century.
    Heather Bien, The Spruce, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Police have blocked the ATM lanes off with yellow crime scene tape, and multiple agencies, including Dallas police and Texas Rangers, can be seen searching the area around the open vestibules.
    Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
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  • But pressure from local religious lobbies stalled the process, local rights groups said.
    Monika Pronczuk, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • The lobbies are lousy with academic-chic décor like books bought by the yard, oil paintings of dead white men, and displays of university memorabilia.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
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