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withdrawing room

NOUN
drawing room
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NOUN
sitting room
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It is not exactly the apartment," she continued, "which I would design for a lady's withdrawing room.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen

The withdrawing room of old England was the quiet room to which the ladies retired, leaving their lords to the freer pleasures of the great hall.

From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe

A large apartment at the east end of the warehouses will be reserved as a withdrawing room for the ladies, and is partitioned off for that purpose. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various

From this hall we passed through another splendid apartment, called "the withdrawing room," down "the queen's staircase," into a court, containing a pretty fountain, and from thence into the gardens.

From Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood

Within, where the cross-lights fell through the wide columned space behind the high altar, was her withdrawing room, where the decorator and builder thought only of pleasing her.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams


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