withdrawing room

noun

withdrawing room

noun
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-room1815 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:
Derived terms
drawing room

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