drawing room en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
Shortening of withdrawing room.
Meanings
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(UK, qualifier:somewhat dated outside of India) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- (UK) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
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(UK) A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
‘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.’
1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin, published 2005, page 11:[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.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:The concluding ceremony came off at twelve o’clock on the day of departure; when Miss Twinkleton, supported by Mrs. Tisher, held a drawing-room in her own apartment (the globes already covered with brown Holland), where glasses of white-wine and plates of cut pound-cake were discovered on the table.
1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
- (US) A private room on a railroad sleeping car.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| drawing-room | alternative | lexicographic | |
| drawing rooms | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| drawingroom | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (28)
fi yksityishytti (private room on a sleeping car) · tr misafir odası (room where visitors may be entertained) · bg гостна стая (room where visitors may be entertained) · es salón (room where visitors may be entertained) · tr misafir salonu (room where visitors may be entertained) · bg купе в спален вагон (private room on a sleeping car) · bg салон (room where visitors may be entertained) · ur نشست گاہ (room where visitors may be entertained) · ru сало́н (room where visitors may be entertained) · de Gesellschaftszimmer (room in a castle) · de Wohnzimmer (room where visitors may be entertained) · ur دیوان خانہ (room where visitors may be entertained) · ko 응접실 (room where visitors may be entertained) · fi vastaanottohuone (room where visitors may be entertained) · de Empfangshalle (room in a castle) · de Empfangszimmer (room where visitors may be entertained) · de Gesellschaftszimmer (room where visitors may be entertained) · gu દીવાનખાનું (room where visitors may be entertained) · nl woonkamer (room where visitors may be entertained) · ru купе́ (private room on a sleeping car) · de Salon (room where visitors may be entertained) · it salone (room in a castle) · ru гости́ная (room where visitors may be entertained) · de Empfangssaal (room in a castle) · de Empfangszimmer (room in a castle) · ru купе́ сало́н-ваго́на (private room on a sleeping car) · fi olohuone (room where visitors may be entertained) · fi vastaanottohuone (room in a castle)