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reception room

NOUN
drawing room
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On the ground floor, next to their 4-year-old grandson’s toy cars, is a reception room with a wooden door.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

One of the screens can "within an hour" be turned into a reception room able to host up to 200 people.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

Sitting in his reception room in the Vatican, Archbishop Gallagher said even he had been stunned by the magnitude of the void he feels has been left by the Pope's death.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

Hours after Dominguez was arraigned, hundreds of relatives and friends of Najm gathered in a reception room on the UC Davis campus to celebrate his life.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023

“In the reception room they were packing apples to sell to the staff, and I asked them if I could buy some for Dad. One of them said, ‘Buy apples for your father?

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang




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