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Definition of Drawing room

1. Noun. A formal room where visitors can be received and entertained.

2. Noun. A private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet.

Definition of Drawing room

1. Noun. (British) a multi functional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle ¹

2. Noun. (British) any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room ¹

3. Noun. (American English) a private room on a railroad sleeping car ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawing Room

drawing boards drawing card drawing chalk drawing dead drawing hand drawing hands drawing ink drawing live drawing lots drawing off

drawing out drawing paper drawing pin drawing pins drawing power drawing room (current term) drawing rooms drawing string drawing table drawings

drawish drawknife drawknives drawl drawlatch drawlatches drawled drawler drawlers drawlier

Literary usage of Drawing room

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1899)
"A pair of folding doors at the back open into the drawing-room. The fire is lit. Phipps, the butler, is arranging some newspapers on the writing-table. ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1808)
"The drawing-room has fome French ... to kave been ufed as a drawing-room. lu the large room are ... drawingroom ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap Book, 1842. Fisher & Co. A SPLENDID and valuable array of Fisher's Annuals and Pictorials have reached us ; but so late in the ..."

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