withdrawing room
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
The man retired, and Marlow entered what was then called the withdrawing room, walking up and down in thought.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
The one apartment had been used as a sort of withdrawing room; in the other stood the long banquet-table, still covered with bright-colored flowers, and dishes of fruit, and decanters and glasses.
From Macleod of Dare by Black, William
On the left was the long enfilade of reception rooms, with the vast audience chamber and milor's own withdrawing room beyond.
From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
That shall be your private withdrawing room when the doctor, or any one else who is not in our secret, happens to come into this room.
From Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
