anti-room

plural anti-rooms

1. obsoleteObsolete form of anteroom.

   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.

   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 [326]

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   [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.

   1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages 7–8

   [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.

   1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 100

   [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.

   1875, Henry Bedford, A Vacation Ramble in Germany, page 25