drawing room

See also: drawing-room

English

Etymology

Shortening of withdrawing room.

Noun

drawing room (plural drawing rooms)

1. (British) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
2. (British) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.

3. A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.
4. (British) A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     [A] great deal of conversation had taken place about the drawing-room, and whether or not young ladies wore powder as well as hoops when presented, and whether she was to have that honour: to the Lord Mayor's ball she knew she was to go.

   • 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin 2005, p. 11:

     ‘Mrs Vane of Castle Marling is staying with us; she came up to present my child at the last Drawing-room but I think I heard something about her dining out to-day.’

5. (US) A private room on a railroad sleeping car.

Translations

room in a castle

• Finnish: vastaanottohuone (fi)
• German: Gesellschaftszimmer (de) n, Empfangszimmer (de) n, Empfangshalle (de) f, Empfangssaal m
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• Italian: salone (it)

room where visitors may be entertained

• Bulgarian: гостна стая (gostna staja)
• Dutch: woonkamer (nl) f
• Finnish: vastaanottohuone (fi); olohuone (fi)
• German: Empfangszimmer (de) n, Gesellschaftszimmer (de) n, Wohnzimmer (de) n, Salon (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: гости́ная (ru) f (gostínaja), сало́н (ru) m (salón)
• Spanish: salón (es)
• Urdu: دیوان خانہ (dīvān xānā)

private room on a sleeping car

• Finnish: yksityishytti
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: купе́ (ru) n (kupɛ́), купе́ сало́н-ваго́на n (kupɛ́ salón-vagóna)

See also

• drawing room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gordian worm