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Drawing-room

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Draw´ing-room`
n.1.A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
2.The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.
He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer.
- Macaulay.
Drawing-room car
See Palace car, under Car.


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Tulliver in the drawing-room, and Stephen hurried away, asking leave to come again in the evening.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
Being a small party, the small drawing-room will do for us.
Miss or Mrs.? by Collins, Wilkie View in context
With the omnibuses and cabs still running in his head, and his body still tingling with his quick walk along the streets and in and out of traffic and foot-passengers, this drawing-room seemed very remote and still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickened by blue grains of mist.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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