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Drawing-room

Drawing-room Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Drawing-room? [n] a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained [n] a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet Synonyms \| Synonyms for Drawing-room: withdrawing room Related Terms \| Find terms related to Drawing-room: baggage car \| beau monde \| beautiful people \| best people \| best room \| boxcar \| caboose \| cafe society \| car \| carriage \| carriage trade \| chair car \| coach \| coal car \| covered waggon \| cream of society \| day coach \| diner \| dinghy \| dining car \| elite \| fashionable society \| flat \| flatcar \| foreroom \| front room \| gondola \| good society \| haut monde \| high life \| high society \| in-crowd \| jet set \| jeunesse doree \| living room \| local \| luggage van \| mail car \| mail van \| monde \| palace car \| parlor \| parlor car \| passenger car \| people of fashion \| polite society \| Pullman \| Pullman car \| railway car \| reefer \| refrigerator car \| right people \| roomette \| salon \| saloon \| sitting room \| sleeper \| smart set \| smoker \| smoking car \| social register \| societe \| society \| solarium \| stateroom \| stockcar \| sun parlor \| sunroom \| tank \| tender \| the Four Hundred \| truck \| upper crust \| uppercut \| van \| Vanity Fair \| waggon \| world of fashion See Also \| compartment \| reception room \| sleeper \| sleeping car \| wagon-lit Drawing-room In Webster's Dictionary \Draw"ing-room`\, n. [Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room.] 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}.

Drawing-room Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Drawing-room?

[n] a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained
[n] a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet

Synonyms | Synonyms for Drawing-room: withdrawing room

Drawing-room In Webster's Dictionary

\Draw"ing-room`\, n. [Abbrev. fr.
withdraw-ing-room.]
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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