drawing room

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noun

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.

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Origin of drawing room

First recorded in 1635–45; as shortening of now obsolete withdrawing room

OTHER WORDS FROM drawing room

drawing-room, adjective

Words nearby drawing room

drawing card, 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

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.
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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Our animators are very excited to be drawing the innards of a human being.
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Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags?
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
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Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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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 Wills
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
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When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
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British Dictionary definitions for drawing room

drawing room

noun

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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drawing room

Origin of drawing room

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