Anti-room

[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.

[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.

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.

[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.