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   drawing room

   /ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ ruːm/

   noun

   • 1. a room in a large private house in which guests can be received and entertained.
   • ▪ consciously refined, light-hearted, and elegant: "drawing-room small talk"
   • ▪ (of a song or play) characterized by a polite observance of social proprieties: "a stock figure of Thirties drawing-room comedy"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (denoting a private room attached to a more public one): abbreviation of 16th-century withdrawing-room ‘a room to withdraw to’.

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