Drawing-room: Definition and part of speech

Drawing-room

  1. n. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.
  2. n. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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