Obs. [a. It. anticamera (Sp. antecamera), f. anti:—L. ante before + camera chamber.] An antechamber.
1625. Bacon, Ess. (Arb.), 552. With Chambers, Bed-chamber, Anticamera, and Recamera, ioyning to it.
1650. R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low-C. Wars, x. 16. The priest, that said Masse in his Anti-Camera.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1693), 205 (D.). The Great Seal, and the Keeper of it, waited two Hours in the Anti-Camera.
