Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room used to withdraw or retire into, formerly generally behind the room in which the family took their meals; later, a parlor or reception-room: now abbreviated to
drawing-room .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained
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Examples
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As all readers of Regency novels know, the ladies withdrew to the withdrawing-room after dinner, leaving the gentlemen at table.
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He bowed accordingly with the deepest deference to the Lady Brenhilda, who, having made some alterations to enhance the splendour of her attire, now moved forward from the withdrawing-room into which she had retreated.
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Two upper domestics, bearing each a huge pair of silver candlesticks, now marshalled the company into a large saloon, or withdrawing-room, where new alterations impressed upon Ravenswood the superior wealth of the present inhabitants of the castle.
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“That you will be pleased to come to her directly, in the withdrawing-room,” answered Lilias.
The Abbot 2008
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The apartments she has to let are in the inner-house: they are a dining-room, two neat parlours, a withdrawing-room, two or three handsome bedchambers, one with a pretty light closet in it, which looks into the little garden, all furnished in taste.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Hildebrand and the young squires, — some to close round the table and be in the way, — some bawled to open, some to shut, a pair of folding-doors which divided the hall from a sort of gallery, as I afterwards learned, or withdrawing-room, fitted up with black wainscot.
Rob Roy 2005
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The third apartment was called the withdrawing-room.
Kenilworth 2004
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Janet Foster obeyed her mistress; and in a few minutes after, Varney entered the withdrawing-room with the graceful ease and unclouded front of an accomplished courtier, skilled, under the veil of external politeness, to disguise his own feelings and to penetrate those of others.
Kenilworth 2004
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Besides lesser lights, the withdrawing-room was illuminated by four tall torches of virgin wax, each of which was placed in the grasp of a statue, representing an armed Moor, who held in his left arm a round buckler of silver, highly polished, interposed betwixt his breast and the light, which was thus brilliantly reflected as from a crystal mirror.
Kenilworth 2004
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Through these exterior apartments Lord Glenvarloch and his city friend advanced into a large and splendid withdrawing-room, communicating with the presence-chamber, into which ante-room were admitted those only who, from birth, their posts in the state or household, or by the particular grant of the kings, had right to attend the Court, as men entitled to pay their respects to their sovereign.
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