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Перевод: antechamber

[существительное]
вестибюль ; передняя ; прихожая ; предкамера ; форкамера

Тезаурус:

1. Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there, "Sorry, none of you".
2. Return to the antechamber and enter the Vladislav Hall, on the site of the hall of Charles IV, surely one of the most exciting spaces created in 16C northern Europe.
3. Paradise it was not; but at least it resembled something like its antechamber.
4. An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber.
5. SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office, Stephen Solarz, the loquacious representative for New York's 13th congressional district, is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president.
6. Her sparsely furnished office on the twenty-second floor of the United Nations building was an antechamber to the UNACO headquarters.
7. In a letter to Leopold he described how he was kept waiting in an icy antechamber for half an hour by the Duchesse de Chabot, to whom he was to play the clavier: when he did play, the assembled company completely ignored him, and continued to sketch.
8. In those days guests would retire to an antechamber after the main meal for a banquet of blancmange - neither term then meant what they do today.
9. There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court, but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin.
10. Enter the palace, walk from the antechamber with its remains of a Romanesque tower, then turn left to the Green Chamber bedecked with the emblems of the associate judges of the courts.
11. From the porter's lodge, a long passage stretches before you, off which is an attractive antechamber with water stoups, busts and something of the atmosphere of a grotto.
12. From the antechamber of the Czech Chancellery a spiral staircase leads to the early 16C hall of the Court Chancellery which contains original furniture of the time of Rudolf Il.
13. It had a long, narrow study, a bedroom, an antechamber, and a big kitchen, and there was enough room for them to hold a private New Year's ball.