drawing-room

See also: drawing room and drawingroom

English

Etymology

From drawing +‎ room.

Noun

drawing-room (plural drawing-rooms)

1. Alternative form of drawing room
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 170–171:

     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.

   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 240:

     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; […]

Anagrams

• Gordian worm