drawing rooms
drawing rooms is the plural of drawing room.
Meaning of drawing room
Noun (1)
drawing room (plural drawing rooms)
- Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
- It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
- A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
- The concluding ceremony came off at twelve o’clock on the day of departure; when Miss Twinkleton, supported by Mrs. Tisher, held a drawing-room in her own apartment (the globes already covered with brown Holland), where glasses of white-wine and plates of cut pound-cake were discovered on the table.1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC
- A private room on a railroad sleeping car.
Noun (2)
drawing room (plural drawing rooms)
- A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.
- Synonyms:
- drawing office
Questions about drawing rooms
- What is drawing rooms the plural of?
- Drawing rooms is the plural of drawing room.
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