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drawing room

–noun
1. a formal reception room, esp. in an apartment or private house.
2. (in a railroad car) a private room for two or three passengers.
3. British. a formal reception, esp. at court.

Origin:
1635–45; as shortening of now obs. withdrawing room


drawing-room, adjective
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