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drawing room¹

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Shortening of withdrawing room.

noun drawing rooms · drawing-room · drawingroom

  1. UK Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room. It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.
  2. UK A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
  3. UK A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society. The concluding ceremony came off at twelve o’clock on the day of departure; when Miss Twinkleton, supported by Mrs. Tisher, held a drawing-room in her own apartment (the globes already covered with brown Holland), where glasses of white-wine and plates of cut pound-cake were discovered on the table.
  4. US A private room on a railroad sleeping car.

drawing room²

noun drawing rooms · drawing-room · drawingroom

  1. A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.

    Similar: drawing office

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noun room where visitors may be entertained

Españolsalón
한국어응접실 eungjeopsil
DeutschEmpfangszimmer, Gesellschaftszimmer, Wohnzimmer, Salon
Русскийгости́ная gostínaja, сало́н salón

noun room in a castle

DeutschGesellschaftszimmer, Empfangszimmer, Empfangshalle, Empfangssaal
Italianosalone

noun private room on a sleeping car

Русскийкупе́ kupɛ́, купе́ сало́н-ваго́на kupɛ́ salón-vagóna

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@misc{drawing_room_2026,
  title = {drawing room},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drawing%20room},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}