drawing room
Noun
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Noun
drawing room (plural drawing rooms)
- (British) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
- (British) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
- A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.
- (British) A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (novel, Chapter 2:
- [A] great deal of conversation had taken place about the drawing-room, and whether or not young ladies wore powder as well as hoops when presented, and whether she was to have that honour: to the Lord Mayor's ball she knew she was to go.
- 1860, Ellen Wood (author), East Lynne, Penguin 2005, p. 11:
- ‘Mrs Vane of Castle Marling is staying with us; she came up to present my child at the last Drawing-room but I think I heard something about her dining out to-day.’
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (novel, Chapter 2:
- (US) A private room on a railroad sleeping car.
- Italian: salone
- Russian: гости́ная
- Spanish: salón
- Russian: купе́
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