withdrawing room

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We of the peaceful professions—videlicet, my daughter Waller and I—did descend from the bartizan, and   betook ourselves to the great withdrawing room, to wait for the result of the approach.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

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

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

But a short time elapsed before the ladies were rejoined by the gentlemen in the withdrawing room, where we will leave them to look after some other friends of ours.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill

His milk he always drinks in a withdrawing room, that it may not be discovered, for that would be too apparent, nor has he any other shift to evade the discerning eye of the observers.

From The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé by Houdini, Harry