drawing room
noun
1
a
: a formal reception room
b
: a private room on a railroad passenger car with three berths and an enclosed toilet
2
: a formal reception
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His camera glides slowly through ornate drawing rooms, dances through operas and dinner parties and lingers on gazes that say what words never can.
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Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
There’s an airy conservatory laced with greenery, and a drawing room set beneath double-height ceilings with a large marble fireplace and expansive bar suitable for a nightcap.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
When the hotel opened in 1904, its founding matriarch and Gilded Age socialite Caroline Astor took a liking to having afternoon tea served on-property (specifically to her closest friends in the drawing room for society gossip).
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
But the center of social gravity eventually shifted from Bruce’s drawing room to the nearby one commanded by Pamela Harriman, whose invitations, beginning in the nineteen-seventies, were all business and entirely partisan.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
There’s an airy conservatory laced with greenery, and a drawing room set beneath double-height ceilings with a large marble fireplace and expansive bar suitable for a nightcap.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
When the hotel opened in 1904, its founding matriarch and Gilded Age socialite Caroline Astor took a liking to having afternoon tea served on-property (specifically to her closest friends in the drawing room for society gossip).
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
But the center of social gravity eventually shifted from Bruce’s drawing room to the nearby one commanded by Pamela Harriman, whose invitations, beginning in the nineteen-seventies, were all business and entirely partisan.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for drawing room
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“Drawing room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drawing%20room. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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