withdrawing room
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of withdrawing room
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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She groped her way to the door, unlocked it, and passed into the withdrawing room.
From Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood
The one apartment had been used as a sort of withdrawing room; in the other stood the long banquet-table, still covered with bright-colored flowers, and dishes of fruit, and decanters and glasses.
From Macleod of Dare by William Black
My "best" room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
It is not exactly the apartment," she continued, "which I would design for a lady's withdrawing room.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
On the left was the long enfilade of reception rooms, with the vast audience chamber and milor's own withdrawing room beyond.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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