DRAWING-ROOM, noun 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room in which distinguished personages hold levees, or private persons receive parties. It is written by Coxe, withdrawing-room, a room to which company withdraws from the dining-room. 2. The company assembled in a drawing-room
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