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withdrawing room en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A room for retirement from another room, as for example after dining; a drawing room.
    • a door in the middle leading to a parlour and withdrawing-room 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

Forms

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withdrawing rooms Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

drawing room