Meaning of drawing-room | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look⟳ around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have⟳ supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine’s drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost⟳ eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force⟳ of the compliment, and would hardly have⟳ resented a comparison with the housekeeper’s room.”

“A neat, clear fire, such as none but well-instructed housemaids make⟳ in summer—for they generally on a warm day seem to prepare⟳ for one of Fox’s martyrs,⁠—was kindled in a small, lofty, third room, in which Mrs. Heneage sat and muddled whilst her drawing-rooms were papered and bagged up for the benefit of her successors; […]”

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