A small room or closet that comes before or leads to another closet or storage space.
From 'ante-' (before) + 'closet.' An architectural term for preparatory storage spaces, less common than other 'ante-' compounds.
This word is so obscure that even architectural historians rarely use it—it's the kind of term that existed in medieval buildings but never got adopted into modern English!
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