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Synonyms for drawing room


Grammar : Noun



Définition of drawing room

Origin :
  • 1640s, short for withdrawing room (see withdraw), into which ladies would go after dinner.
  • noun room to entertain guests
Example sentences :
  • If they moved in the drawing room, the apple only turned its yellow side.
  • Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf
  • She craned her head into the drawing room and found it empty.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • Georges had passed the night on an armchair in the drawing room.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • And she left him, and he stood in the middle of the drawing room.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • As to Steiner, he would sleep on the divan in the drawing room.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • Then he went into the drawing room in search of a newspaper.
  • Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
  • But d'Alcacer advanced smiling, as if the beach were a drawing room.
  • Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad
  • No longer entertained, she prepared to leave the drawing room.
  • Extract from : « The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World » by Margaret Vandercook
  • So he walked through the drawing room and entered the room beyond.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Switzerland » by Jacob Abbott
  • Early in the evening Lieutenant Lawton disappeared from the drawing room.
  • Extract from : « Madge Morton's Secret » by Amy D. V. Chalmers

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