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drawing room
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Definition:1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---1. (Britain) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.2. (Britain) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.3. (Britain) A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.4. (US) A private room on a railroad sleeping car.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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I went through the long drawing room, as he had directed; a lovely room this, beautifully proportioned, looking out upon the lawns down to the sea. The public would see this room, I supposed,
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The sitting room would once have been called a drawing room, perhaps; then a living room. Or maybe it’s a parlor, the kind with a spider and flies.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
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the whole corner, in fact, were treated with distinguished consideration, and made, so far as possible, sacred from the marauding inroads and desecrations of little folks. In fact, that corner was the drawing-room of the establishment.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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