Antichamber
Antichamber means a long wait or repeated auditions in the anteroom of high-ranking personalities or authorities. From this, in turn, the negative meaning is derived “to pervert in the anteroom of the great and powerful and to flatter them there” in order to get a favor or grace from these great ones by humping and crawling .
etymology
The French word for 'anteroom' antichambre was taken from Italian. The i in antichambrieren does not originally come from Latin or French, but from Italian, where ante has partly become anti . See, for example, Anticamera Pontificia .
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Wiktionary: antichambrieren - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
