withdrawing room
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of withdrawing room
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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But a short time elapsed before the ladies were rejoined by the gentlemen in the withdrawing room, where we will leave them to look after some other friends of ours.
From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by John Turvill Adams
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
Anthony followed her gratefully upstairs and presently into a small withdrawing room upon the first floor.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
The creek bed was a withdrawing room in which to retire from the eternal black soil and level corn-fields of Iowa.
From The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick
Some two hundred girls and as many men were gathered there; the pit was their dancing ring and the gallery was their withdrawing room.
From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine
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