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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drawing room
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And knowing the rules, you don't allow smoking in the drawing room.
▪ Birds are the theme of the drawing room.
▪ But Charles and Elaine were sitting on the rug before the open wood fire in the drawing room.
▪ In one episode, the platoon gathered in the Mainwarings' drawing room for a buffet.
▪ It was a conversation they had begun in the drawing room before dinner.
▪ The drawing room and dining room are furnished prettily in Laura Ashley décor and have very fine views.
▪ When Dorothea enters the Lydgate drawing room, she sees distraught Will comforting weeping Rosamond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drawing room

1640s, short for withdrawing room (see withdraw), into which ladies would go after dinner.

Wiktionary
drawing room

n. 1 (context British English) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle. 2 (context British English) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.

WordNet
drawing room

  1. n. a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained [syn: withdrawing room]

  2. a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet

Wikipedia
Drawing room

A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the sixteenth-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the seventeenth century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large sixteenth- to early eighteenth-century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy. It was often off the great chamber (or the great chamber's descendant, the state room or salon) and usually led to a formal, or "state" bedroom.