The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withdrawing-room \With*draw"ing-room`\, n. [See Withdraw, and cf. Drawing-room.] A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
A door in the middle leading to a parlor and
withdrawing-room.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Usage examples of "withdrawing-room".
In that room, the old withdrawing-room of the Elizabethan wing--where once had been the embroideries, tapestries, and missals of beruffled dames were now books, pamphlets, oak-panels, pipes, fencing gear, and along one wall a collection of Red Indian weapons and ornaments brought back by Miltoun from the United States.
He did not care a rush for convention and would go wherever he pleased, even into the ladies' withdrawing-room.
Carnal-Security was gone into his withdrawing-room, for he liked not such dumpish doings,) both to the man of the house for drawing them into evil, and also to recover Emmanuel’s love.