withdrawing room

American  

noun

Archaic.

1. a room to withdraw or retire to; drawing room.

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withdrawing room British  

noun

1. an archaic term for drawing room

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Etymology

Origin of withdrawing room

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

Within, where the cross-lights fell through the wide columned space behind the high altar, was her withdrawing room, where the decorator and builder thought only of pleasing her.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

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 Quick, Herbert

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 Adams, John Turvill

The withdrawing room of old England was the quiet room to which the ladies retired, leaving their lords to the freer pleasures of the great hall.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

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 Caine, Hall, Sir

Related Words

• drawing room
• parlor
• salon
• sitting room