antechamber
- n a large entrance or reception room or area
- Plaques and portraits of Ecuador's 105 Presidents line the yellow walls of the antechamber to the restrooms in El Pobre Diablo (The Poor Devil), a bohemian hangout in Quito, the .
- The sense that these works each reflect the life of a missing owner is brought home in an antechamber where five computers enable visitors to look up the provenance of every item .
- Mailer wrote that Cape Kennedy was "the antechamber of the new creation.