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单词 drawing room
释义

drawing room

noun
1A room in a large private house in which guests can be received and entertained.This was once a state bedroom for visiting dignitaries but is now an elegant drawing room for entertaining important guests....
  • There are three bedrooms, a drawing room, a dining room, a kitchen and a bathroom.
  • As well as four bedrooms, the house has a drawing room, dining room, kitchen and a study.
1.1 [as modifier] (Of a song or play) characterized by a polite observance of social proprieties: a stock figure of Thirties drawing-room comedy...
  • Until Synge wrote Playboy, Irish theatre had been made up entirely of rather dull drawing-room dramas.
  • Accusations of vicarage film-making are easy gibes to fling at Dame Agatha's drawing-room dramas, especially when the set designers and wardrobe people do such a good job at recreating the period.
  • Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft were still in the ascendant and the West End was dominated by drawing-room comedies, lightweight whodunnits, American musicals and classic revivals.

Origin

Mid 17th century (denoting a private room attached to a more public one): abbreviation of 16th-century withdrawing-room 'a room to withdraw to'.

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