drawing room
noun
1
a
: a formal reception room
b
: a private room on a railroad passenger car with three berths and an enclosed toilet
2
: a formal reception
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Entertaining spaces flow from there: a formal dining room that seats 20, a drawing room with marble fireplace, and an orangery that opens directly to a west-facing terrace.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 June 2025
Soaked in rich colors and gilded detailing, the drawing room is now open to the public for the first time in its history.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Everyone has a relative with outdated views, but few have had to deal with relations who were married in Joseph Goebbels’s drawing room with Adolf Hitler as the witness.
—George Pendle, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
The golds and greens of her drawing room blurred into a nauseous palette.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 June 2025
Soaked in rich colors and gilded detailing, the drawing room is now open to the public for the first time in its history.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Everyone has a relative with outdated views, but few have had to deal with relations who were married in Joseph Goebbels’s drawing room with Adolf Hitler as the witness.
—George Pendle, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
The golds and greens of her drawing room blurred into a nauseous palette.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for drawing room
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“Drawing room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drawing%20room. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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