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drawing-room comedy

[ draw-ing-room, -room ]
/ ˈdrɔ ɪŋˌrum, -ˌrʊm /
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noun Theater.
a light, sophisticated comedy typically set in a drawing room with characters drawn from polite society.
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Origin of drawing-room comedy

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby drawing-room comedy

drawing chisel, drawing frame, drawing-in, drawing pin, drawing room, drawing-room comedy, drawing table, draw in one's horns, draw in the reins, drawknife, drawl
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How to use drawing-room comedy in a sentence

  • I am wearing a large straw hat with blue ribbons, and a white dress and a blue sash, like the ingnue in a drawing-room comedy.

    The Devourers|Annie Vivanti Chartres

  • And he sat through it as silent and seemingly unmoved as though she had been rehearsing a speech for some drawing-room comedy.

    The Unbearable Bassington|Saki

  • He was as much out of place as would a low comedian on being suddenly called upon to undertake 'drawing-room comedy.'

    Allan Ramsay|William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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