Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
elle ne le fit pas entrer chez elle mais dans l'antichambre
English translation:
Instead of inviting him in, she made him wait in the entrance hall.
French term
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Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
elle ne le fit pas entrer chez elle mais dans l'antichambre
Proposed translations
Costa Rica
Translations that read like originals
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US) 
Works in: French to English, German to English, Spanish to English, and 3 more.
Instead of inviting him in, she made him wait in the entrance hall.
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markmx
: straightforward
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writeaway
: not the most literal translation here but is certainly the most natural sounding
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Sarah Walls
4 hrs
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lien
6 hrs
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Saleh Ayyub
9 hrs
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she did not bring him into her house but into the waiting room
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antechamber is also used
modern day usage would be \"foyer\" which is entrée in French
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Native in: Tamil
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She did not allow him entry into her house beyond the anteroom
She did not
France
Experience and feel
Native in: French , English (Variant: British)
Works in: English to French, French to English
she did not let him in her rooms but only in the entrance lounge
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Peter Coles
: I'd have used "into" in place of each "in" but this gets my vote since my house has neither antirooms or waiting rooms!
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Bourth (X)
: or "into the hall" (depending on who your internal designer is, I guess).
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danyce
4 hrs
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Saleh Ayyub
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she asked him to enter no further into her house than the entrnace hall
Sustainable Translations
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, Arabic to French, Spanish to French
She let him in only until the waiting room
France
Fast and accurate.
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France)
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She did not usher him in, but kept hil in the anteroom
Canada
Accurate, functional, agreeable
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian)
Works in: English to French
she did not invite him into her apartments, but in the anteroom
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apartments = suite of rooms
United States
aided expression: multilingual, multiart
Native in: English
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foyer or entry way
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Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: definitely not foyer or entry way as you say; also not UNTIL!!! BUT UP TO
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house/entrance way
If it's her ROOM, it can be chamber and antichamber depending on the epoch
She showed him into the entrance way, not inside the house.
faire entrer-to show someone in
United Kingdom
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