reception room

noun
a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.

Origin:
1820–30

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reception room
 
n
1.  a room in a private house suitable for entertaining guests, esp a lounge or dining room
2.  a room in a hotel suitable for large parties, receptions, etc

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Example sentences
Based on those photographs, the reception room appears to be one of the finest
  in the entire building.
Each food station around the reception room creates an environment.
The second floor, once the main reception room of this wealthy merchant's home,
  reveals faint traces of its former glory.
To the right of the entrance as you walk in is the king's reception room.
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