About The Word Drawing-room
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Drawing-room
Drawing-room Definition And Meaning |
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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}.
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