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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Everyone has a relative with outdated views, but few have had to deal with relations who were married in Joseph Goebbels’s drawing room with Adolf Hitler as the witness.
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George Pendle, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
The golds and greens of her drawing room blurred into a nauseous palette.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Literature is an easy place to make a home, and my schoolteachers and librarians invited me out of Oz and onto the American prairie, the English drawing room, and to poetry.
—Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
Following three ambitious siblings at the turn of the twentieth century, this is a zippy drawing room tale that ventures uptown.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
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George Pendle, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
The golds and greens of her drawing room blurred into a nauseous palette.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Literature is an easy place to make a home, and my schoolteachers and librarians invited me out of Oz and onto the American prairie, the English drawing room, and to poetry.
—Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
Following three ambitious siblings at the turn of the twentieth century, this is a zippy drawing room tale that ventures uptown.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 June 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 5 Jul. 2025.
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