drawing room in English
This was once a state bedroom for visiting dignitaries but is now an elegant drawing room for entertaining important guests.
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Use "drawing room" in a sentence
1. He ushered me into the drawing room.
2. Andrea reached the anteroom beyond the little drawing - room.
3. She stood aghast at the black shadow in the drawing room.
4. 16 Following the performances there were chummy gatherings in the drawing room.
5. 26 The old drawing room serves her as both sitting room and study.
6. The drawing room is a quite spectacular octagonal room, with a 17-foot ceiling.
7. It is more like some drawing-room comedy-farce in which the drawing room in question is big and fuselage-shaped, and the cockpit, where the big, secret issues must be Bickeringly discussed, is
8. 135 The drawing-room was Chintzy then—white walls and old china and bowls of …
9. In the drawing room a pair of pink marble pillars supported the embrasure of the windows.
10. The Brusque and rather timid young officer is lionized in the drawing-room of Madame Tallien
11. 22 Sometimes Dolly marched out of the drawing-room, slamming the door and striding out of the house.
12. There is a split-level drawing room with full-height arched windows and a gallery with retained wooden Balustrades
13. At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room.
14. 26 From the drawing room door she turned to her right into the small vestibule at the stair foot.
15. The back drawing-room has never produced a company of comedians so intensely and ostentatiously conscious of their own funniness.
16. She greeted Charlotte in a drawing room strewn with plants and pictures where an impassive bloodhound dozed before a blazing fire.
17. Here everyone lived enfamille; there were swimming parties, excursions by boat(Sentencedict.com), and in the evening charades or drawing-room dances.
18. If you've got any drawing- room manners or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or dropping Aitches, you'd better chuck 'em away
19. In other large houses, a large room such as the main drawing room, long gallery, or hall may double as a Ballroom, but a good Ballroom …
20. (of VI.) Thomas Moore The ground floor served as drawing-room; above it was the Anchoret 's bedroom; and the top story was used as a study.
21. They set forward; and, with a grandeur of air, a dignified step, which caught the eye, but could not shake the doubts of the well-read Catherine, he led the way across the hall, through the common drawing-room and one useless Antechamber, into a room magnificent both in size and furniture—the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.
22. April - An extraordinary coincidence: Carrie had called in a woman to make some chintz covers for our drawing-room chairs and sofa to prevent the sun fading the green rep of the furniture.
23. In the 17th century scaled-down carillons are introduced into the drawing-room: the musical clock contains a row of bells which are played by a pro grammed cylinder just like the tower carillon.
24. My Bedchamber is another huge shadowy place, with a dressing-room and bath as large as the ordinary drawing-room at home, furnished with old mahogany and silver fittings brought from Germany two generations ago.
25. At nine o'clock in the evening in the Crimson Drawing Room at Carlton House, with Leopold dressing for the first time as a British General (the Prince Regent wore the uniform of a Field Marshal), the couple were married.
26. From there, visitors progressed only as far as their status permitted, through the State Drawing Room and ' Antichamber ', with only the most distinguished courtiers being admitted to the most luxuriously appointed room of all, the State Bedchamber, or the final and most private room, the State Closet.
27. 1850, The Anglo-hindoostanee handbook: The finer kinds of perfumery, prettily cut-glass bottles, and all sorts of Bijouterie for the toilet or drawing-room table, good plaister casts, and in fact every thing ornamental, as far as the pecuniary means can afford, should be taken
28. Children Accoutred in vibrant colours on the stage: farbenfroh ausstaffierte Kinder auf der Bühne: a comfortably accoutered house: ein bequem ausgestattetes Haus: to accoutre the events in the clothing of romance [fig.] die Ereignisse in ein romantisches Kleid hüllen [übtr.] The drawing room was splendidly Accoutred
29. And his mother, a Belaced little woman, all aflutter since breakfast over such an usual event as this about to take place in mid-morning on a Saturday, in her yellow-brocaded drawing-room, was so upset after the arrival of the bride and groom, that she begged her son to have nothing to do with the ceremony.
30. Knitandpurl commented on the word Chimerical "For years I had believed that the notion of going to Mme Swann's was a vague, Chimerical dream to which I should never attain; after I had spent a quarter of an hour in her drawing-room, it was the time when I did not yet know her that had become Chimerical and vague like a possibility which the realisation of an alternative possibility has destroyed."