drawing room

See also: drawing-room

English

Shortening of withdrawing room.

drawing room (plural drawing rooms)

(Britain) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
(Britain, somewhat dated) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
  It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.
A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.
Synonym: drawing office
(Britain) A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  [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.
- 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin 2005, p. 11:
  ‘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.’
(US) A private room on a railroad sleeping car.

room in a castle

Finnish: vastaanottohuone (fi)
German: Gesellschaftszimmer (de) n, Empfangszimmer (de) n, Empfangshalle (de) f, Empfangssaal m
Italian: salone (it)

room where visitors may be entertained

Bulgarian: гостна стая (gostna staja)
Dutch: woonkamer (nl) f
Finnish: vastaanottohuone (fi); olohuone (fi)
German: Empfangszimmer (de) n, Gesellschaftszimmer (de) n, Wohnzimmer (de) n, Salon (de) m
Russian: гости́ная (ru) f (gostínaja), сало́н (ru) m (salón)
Spanish: salón (es)
Urdu: دیوان خانہ‎ (dīvān xānā)

private room on a sleeping car