DRAWINGROOM

Drawing room

A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the sixteenth-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the seventeenth century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large sixteenth- to early eighteenth-century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy. It was often off the great chamber and usually led to a formal, or "state" bedroom.

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drawing room

Noun

  1. A multi functional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
  2. Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
  3. A private room on a railroad sleeping car.


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