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DRAWING ROOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A formal room where visitors can be received and entertained
Synonyms:
drawing room; withdrawing room
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("drawing room" is a kind of...):
reception room (a room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("drawing room" is a kind of...):
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
Holonyms ("drawing room" is a part of...):
sleeper; sleeping car; wagon-lit (a passenger car that has berths for sleeping)
Context examples:
Next day, having seen both the old and young gentleman out of the house, Beth, after two or three retreats, fairly got in at the side door, and made her way as noiselessly as any mouse to the drawing room where her idol stood.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Amy's face was a study when she saw her sister skim into the next drawing room, kiss all the young ladies with effusion, beam graciously upon the young gentlemen, and join in the chat with a spirit which amazed the beholder.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Couldn't we invent a rich relation, who shall obligingly die out there in Germany, and leave him a tidy little fortune? said Laurie, when they began to pace up and down the long drawing room, arm in arm, as they were fond of doing, in memory of the chateau garden.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I went back to the drawing room and thought for an instant that they were chance visitors, all these official people who suddenly filled it. But as they drew back the sheet and looked at Gatsby with unmoved eyes, his protest continued in my brain.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
