drawing room
a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
(in a railroad car) a private room for two or three passengers.
British. a formal reception, especially at court.
Origin of drawing room
1Other words from drawing room
- drawing-room, adjective
Words Nearby drawing room
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How to use drawing room in a sentence
Toward the end of the hour-long song, as the chorus repeats, each performer leaves the room they are in to gather downstairs in the drawing room.
Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece | Sebastian Smee, Gabriel Florit, Joanne Lee | July 23, 2021 | Washington PostA moment ago the drawing-room had seemed empty; Mrs. Luke, in her sole person, filled and illuminated it.
He struck me as being something of a drawing-room Communist and I doubt whether he had talks of any importance with the Chinese.
In the gloomy drawing room were oil paintings of old generals and one of Princess Diana, painted in the 1980s.
Welcome to Woolwich, Where English Terrorists Say Sorry While They Murder | Peter Pomerantsev | May 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTEach one—from the drawing room to the cellar—contains dozens, if not hundreds, of cavernous metaphorical rooms.
We sat in the drawing room for close to half an hour, waiting.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsWhen they rose from table and went back into her little drawing-room, she left her daughter alone for awhile with Bernard.
Confidence | Henry JamesHaggard and his wife sat in the little drawing-room of their bijou house in May Fair.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsThe regulation chairs and tables of the furnished house had been banished from Mrs. Haggard's drawing-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsThe lazy giant was sprawling on the most comfortable of the sofas; the pair were alone in the dainty little drawing-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
British Dictionary definitions for drawing room
a room where visitors are received and entertained; living room; sitting room
archaic a ceremonial or formal reception, esp at court
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