ante-camera

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with an influential person such as a pope or monarch.
    — As it hapned to that wiſe Philoſopher who being clad in a meane but honeſt habit, preſſed amongſt the rest to the Kings Ante-camera, or with-drawing Chamber, where hee vſed to giue Audience, hauing very neceſſary occaſion to ſpeake vnto him.

词形变化

ante-cameras plural anti-camera alternative

词源

From Middle French anticamera and its etymon Italian anticamera, with substitution of ante-, originally after Spanish antecámara, itself after Italian.
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