drawing roomn.

Brit.

/ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ ruːm/,

/ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ rʊm/, U.S.

/ˈdrɔɪŋ ˌrum/,

/ˈdrɔɪŋ ˌrʊm/,

/ˈdrɑɪŋ ˌrum/,

/ˈdrɑɪŋ ˌrʊm/

Forms: see drawing n. and room n.¹ and int.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: withdrawing-room n.

Etymology: Shortened < withdrawing-room n. Compare earlier drawing chamber n.

a. Originally: any private room or chamber to which people may withdraw, usually attached to a more public room. Later chiefly: a room in a house (now esp. a large house or manor) which is reserved for the reception and entertainment of guests. Cf. withdrawing-room n.From the late 18th to the early 20th century it was conventional in polite society for ladies at a dinner party to withdraw to the drawing room following dinner, while the gentlemen remained for a period at the dining room table before joining them.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room > drawing room

withdrawing-chamber1392

drawing chamber1410

draught-chamber?1454

withdraught1481

withdrawing-room1611

drawing room1635

lounge1938

1635 Steward's Househ. Accts. 30 Apr. (Althorp Househ. Bks.) in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. (A) 4 p. lxx Bragetts for the drawinge room.

1728 E. Young Love of Fame i, in Wks. (1757) I. 88 Nor shoots up folly to a nobler bloom In her own native soil, the drawing-room.

1746 in A. Collins Lett. & Memorials of State II. ix. 91 [Quoting a letter dated 1642, written in code.] The king..is very chearfull, and by the baudy Discourse, I thought I had bin in the drawing Roome.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 245 We went to the drawing-room, where was a considerable increase of company.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 117 The gentlemen..rejoin the ladies in the drawing-room, and take coffee.

1933 Discovery July 218/2 The sitting-rooms, parlour, drawing-room, morning room, study, library, ballroom and so on have all been kaleidoscoped into the living room.

1990 J. Burchill Moan Rangers in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 138 In the Eighties Britain's cultural dissidents..had secret meetings in huge Georgian drawing rooms and expensive Chelsea restaurants.

2017 K. Kwan Rich People Probl. i. xiii. 84 It was always the custom at Tyersall Park for guests to be served iced longan tea in the drawing room when they first arrived.

b. A company of people assembled in a drawing room (sense 1a). Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > assemblage of > in drawing room

drawing room1728

1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques ii. i. 17 I sometimes look on my Drawing-Room as a little Parliament of Fools, to which every different Body sends its Representatives.

1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 397 A young lady whose unparalleled impalpability of waist was the envy of the drawing-room.

1856 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Misc. Writ. (1889) 374 He would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer.

1923 T. S. Eliot Let. 5 Oct. (2011) II. 242 Practically, one crucifies oneself and entertains drawing rooms and lounges.

2014 A. Forester Wrong Highland Bridegroom (e-book, accessed 14 Aug. 2019) 102 The entire drawing room was silently staring at her with censure.

2. A levee (levee n.² 2) held in a drawing room (sense 1a); a formal reception or assembly held by a sovereign or other high-ranking person or official; (sometimes spec.) one at which an upper-class young woman or debutante is presented at court. Now historical.Quots. 1673, 1707 imply receptions or assemblies but show sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by person of distinction

drawing room1711

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 18 You shall be every day at the King's Levé and I at the Queen's; and we will never meet, but in the Drawing-room.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 50 Whereas, If I marry my Lord Aimwell, there will be Title, Place and Precedence, the Park, the Play, and the drawing-Room.]

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Aug. (1948) I. 328 There was a drawing-room to-day at Court.

1714 London Gaz. No. 5267/8 In the Evening her Highness kept a Drawing-Room, at which were all the Ladies and Persons of Distinction of this Place.

1868 Queen Victoria Tours Eng. & Irel. 183 At half past Eight we drove into Dublin for the Drawing-room. It is always held here of an evening... One thousand six hundred ladies were presented.

1901 Canad. Mag. Oct. 510/1 The débutante..goes directly from the drawing-room to a fashionable photographer's.

1927 M. Asquith Lay Serm. v. 117 Women with..faces as large as hams, appear at the King's Drawing-Rooms with the nuque of their necks blue from shaving.

2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 15 Jan. 39/2 Dolley [Madison] instituted weekly state dinners and Wednesday evening ‘drawing rooms’ that brought together cabinet secretaries, congressmen, and visitors of all partisan and regional stripes.

3. A luxurious and spacious carriage or section of a railway train; (North American) the largest and most luxurious private compartment of a Pullman railway carriage, having three berths and a private toilet. Frequently (and earliest) as a modifier, esp. in drawing-room car. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1867 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 14 Sept. 347/2 A new and magnificent sleeping and drawing-room car of the Pullman patent, has been..placed on the Michigan Central road.

1868 C. Dickens Let. 21 Mar. (2002) XII. 80 The Express trains have now a very delightful carriage called a ‘Drawing Room Car’—literally, a series of little private drawing rooms, with sofas and a table in each, opening out of a little corridor.

1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. vi. 101 There were many so-called drawing-room compartments on the train.

1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xviii. 393 Uncle Thomas will still eat, and buy two tickets so he can travel in a Pullman drawing-room.

2011 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio) (Nexis) 25 Dec. It consisted of two locomotives, the Socrates and Columbia; their tenders..; a smoking car; and drawing-room car.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier, as in drawing-room door, drawing-room table, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered > suitable for drawing-room

drawing room1692

drawing-roomy1825

1692 Tryal Duke of Norfolk & J. Jermaine 5 I opened the Drawing-room Door.

1780 Mrs. Harris in Private Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 453 We illuminated the parlour floor and the drawing-room floor.

1786 F. Burney Diary 27 July (1842) III. 35 The Queen..puts on her drawing-room apparel at St. James's.

1870 R. K. Philp Best of Everything 44/1 The best dining-room tables are of mahogany or oak; the best drawing-room tables of rosewood or walnut.

1901 Lady's Realm June 134/2 Lady Camelot asked us both to her drawing-room tea to-day.

1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y Prol. ii. 16 Griffons were the last word in ornament and antimacassars were indispensable drawing-room accessories.

2009 Guardian (Nexis) 13 June 18 A circle of elegant drawing-room chairs are connected by a spider's web of emerald beads.

C2. As a modifier, with the sense ‘suitable for or characteristic of the polite society of a drawing room’. Now chiefly historical.

ΚΠ

1831 New Monthly Mag. 33 25/2 The melody is pleasing, and likely to become popular as a drawing-room song, with all lovers of simplicity and taste.

1877 Porcupine 20 Jan. 676/3 It was desirable to modify the language a little, and the drawing-room version ran thus.

1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 82 What do you think of this story, the latest from the trenches? It's not quite a drawing-room one!

2015 T. Palmer Irreversible ii. 41 The drawing room niceties of Eric Rohmer's moral comedies are hereby desecrated, left to ruin.

C3. As a modifier, designating a type of comic drama associated with the late Victorian period, typically set in a drawing room and depicting the manners, habits, or affectations of polite society, esp. in drawing-room comedy; cf. comedy of manners n. at comedy n.¹ Phrases.

ΚΠ

1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl II. ii. 22 An actor in a similar bit of drawing-room comedy.

1900 G. B. Shaw Prefaces (1934) xxix. 709/2 Love is the one subject that the drawing room drama dare not present.

1959 J. Braine Vodi xv. 200 The neatly-folded scarf gave him a drawing-room comedy smartness.

2014 New Yorker 10 Nov. 87/3 He tries to turn ‘The Real Thing’ into a drawing-room comedy.

Derivatives

ˈdrawing-ˌroomy adj. characteristic of the polite society of a drawing room; consciously refined or decorous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered > suitable for drawing-room

drawing room1692

drawing-roomy1825

1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 145 The dandy witlings and drawing-roomy poets of the age.

1907 Daily Chron. 18 June 6/4 The sentiment was sometimes rather drawing-roomy.

2013 Bristol Post (Nexis) 14 Oct. 22 Piano trios can sound a bit drawing-roomy, pretty rather than dramatic but not in this instance.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	drawing room
释义	drawing roomn. Brit. /ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ ruːm/, /ˈdrɔː(r)ɪŋ rʊm/, U.S. /ˈdrɔɪŋ ˌrum/, /ˈdrɔɪŋ ˌrʊm/, /ˈdrɑɪŋ ˌrum/, /ˈdrɑɪŋ ˌrʊm/ Forms: see drawing n. and room n.¹ and int. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: withdrawing-room n. Etymology: Shortened < withdrawing-room n. Compare earlier drawing chamber n. 1. a. Originally: any private room or chamber to which people may withdraw, usually attached to a more public room. Later chiefly: a room in a house (now esp. a large house or manor) which is reserved for the reception and entertainment of guests. Cf. withdrawing-room n.From the late 18th to the early 20th century it was conventional in polite society for ladies at a dinner party to withdraw to the drawing room following dinner, while the gentlemen remained for a period at the dining room table before joining them. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room > drawing room withdrawing-chamber1392 drawing chamber1410 draught-chamber?1454 withdraught1481 withdrawing-room1611 drawing room1635 lounge1938 1635 Steward's Househ. Accts. 30 Apr. (Althorp Househ. Bks.) in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. (A) 4 p. lxx Bragetts for the drawinge room. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame i, in Wks. (1757) I. 88 Nor shoots up folly to a nobler bloom In her own native soil, the drawing-room. 1746 in A. Collins Lett. & Memorials of State II. ix. 91 [Quoting a letter dated 1642, written in code.] The king..is very chearfull, and by the baudy Discourse, I thought I had bin in the drawing Roome. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 245 We went to the drawing-room, where was a considerable increase of company. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 117 The gentlemen..rejoin the ladies in the drawing-room, and take coffee. 1933 Discovery July 218/2 The sitting-rooms, parlour, drawing-room, morning room, study, library, ballroom and so on have all been kaleidoscoped into the living room. 1990 J. Burchill Moan Rangers in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 138 In the Eighties Britain's cultural dissidents..had secret meetings in huge Georgian drawing rooms and expensive Chelsea restaurants. 2017 K. Kwan Rich People Probl. i. xiii. 84 It was always the custom at Tyersall Park for guests to be served iced longan tea in the drawing room when they first arrived. b. A company of people assembled in a drawing room (sense 1a). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > assemblage of > in drawing room drawing room1728 1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques ii. i. 17 I sometimes look on my Drawing-Room as a little Parliament of Fools, to which every different Body sends its Representatives. 1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 397 A young lady whose unparalleled impalpability of waist was the envy of the drawing-room. 1856 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Misc. Writ. (1889) 374 He would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. 1923 T. S. Eliot Let. 5 Oct. (2011) II. 242 Practically, one crucifies oneself and entertains drawing rooms and lounges. 2014 A. Forester Wrong Highland Bridegroom (e-book, accessed 14 Aug. 2019) 102 The entire drawing room was silently staring at her with censure. 2. A levee (levee n.² 2) held in a drawing room (sense 1a); a formal reception or assembly held by a sovereign or other high-ranking person or official; (sometimes spec.) one at which an upper-class young woman or debutante is presented at court. Now historical.Quots. 1673, 1707 imply receptions or assemblies but show sense 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors > by person of distinction drawing room1711 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 18 You shall be every day at the King's Levé and I at the Queen's; and we will never meet, but in the Drawing-room. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 50 Whereas, If I marry my Lord Aimwell, there will be Title, Place and Precedence, the Park, the Play, and the drawing-Room.] 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Aug. (1948) I. 328 There was a drawing-room to-day at Court. 1714 London Gaz. No. 5267/8 In the Evening her Highness kept a Drawing-Room, at which were all the Ladies and Persons of Distinction of this Place. 1868 Queen Victoria Tours Eng. & Irel. 183 At half past Eight we drove into Dublin for the Drawing-room. It is always held here of an evening... One thousand six hundred ladies were presented. 1901 Canad. Mag. Oct. 510/1 The débutante..goes directly from the drawing-room to a fashionable photographer's. 1927 M. Asquith Lay Serm. v. 117 Women with..faces as large as hams, appear at the King's Drawing-Rooms with the nuque of their necks blue from shaving. 2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 15 Jan. 39/2 Dolley [Madison] instituted weekly state dinners and Wednesday evening ‘drawing rooms’ that brought together cabinet secretaries, congressmen, and visitors of all partisan and regional stripes. 3. A luxurious and spacious carriage or section of a railway train; (North American) the largest and most luxurious private compartment of a Pullman railway carriage, having three berths and a private toilet. Frequently (and earliest) as a modifier, esp. in drawing-room car. Now historical. ΚΠ 1867 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 14 Sept. 347/2 A new and magnificent sleeping and drawing-room car of the Pullman patent, has been..placed on the Michigan Central road. 1868 C. Dickens Let. 21 Mar. (2002) XII. 80 The Express trains have now a very delightful carriage called a ‘Drawing Room Car’—literally, a series of little private drawing rooms, with sofas and a table in each, opening out of a little corridor. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. vi. 101 There were many so-called drawing-room compartments on the train. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xviii. 393 Uncle Thomas will still eat, and buy two tickets so he can travel in a Pullman drawing-room. 2011 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio) (Nexis) 25 Dec. It consisted of two locomotives, the Socrates and Columbia; their tenders..; a smoking car; and drawing-room car. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier, as in drawing-room door, drawing-room table, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered > suitable for drawing-room drawing room1692 drawing-roomy1825 1692 Tryal Duke of Norfolk & J. Jermaine 5 I opened the Drawing-room Door. 1780 Mrs. Harris in Private Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 453 We illuminated the parlour floor and the drawing-room floor. 1786 F. Burney Diary 27 July (1842) III. 35 The Queen..puts on her drawing-room apparel at St. James's. 1870 R. K. Philp Best of Everything 44/1 The best dining-room tables are of mahogany or oak; the best drawing-room tables of rosewood or walnut. 1901 Lady's Realm June 134/2 Lady Camelot asked us both to her drawing-room tea to-day. 1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y Prol. ii. 16 Griffons were the last word in ornament and antimacassars were indispensable drawing-room accessories. 2009 Guardian (Nexis) 13 June 18 A circle of elegant drawing-room chairs are connected by a spider's web of emerald beads. C2. As a modifier, with the sense ‘suitable for or characteristic of the polite society of a drawing room’. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1831 New Monthly Mag. 33 25/2 The melody is pleasing, and likely to become popular as a drawing-room song, with all lovers of simplicity and taste. 1877 Porcupine 20 Jan. 676/3 It was desirable to modify the language a little, and the drawing-room version ran thus. 1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) 82 What do you think of this story, the latest from the trenches? It's not quite a drawing-room one! 2015 T. Palmer Irreversible ii. 41 The drawing room niceties of Eric Rohmer's moral comedies are hereby desecrated, left to ruin. C3. As a modifier, designating a type of comic drama associated with the late Victorian period, typically set in a drawing room and depicting the manners, habits, or affectations of polite society, esp. in drawing-room comedy; cf. comedy of manners n. at comedy n.¹ Phrases. ΚΠ 1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl II. ii. 22 An actor in a similar bit of drawing-room comedy. 1900 G. B. Shaw Prefaces (1934) xxix. 709/2 Love is the one subject that the drawing room drama dare not present. 1959 J. Braine Vodi xv. 200 The neatly-folded scarf gave him a drawing-room comedy smartness. 2014 New Yorker 10 Nov. 87/3 He tries to turn ‘The Real Thing’ into a drawing-room comedy. Derivatives ˈdrawing-ˌroomy adj. characteristic of the polite society of a drawing room; consciously refined or decorous. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered > suitable for drawing-room drawing room1692 drawing-roomy1825 1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 145 The dandy witlings and drawing-roomy poets of the age. 1907 Daily Chron. 18 June 6/4 The sentiment was sometimes rather drawing-roomy. 2013 Bristol Post (Nexis) 14 Oct. 22 Piano trios can sound a bit drawing-roomy, pretty rather than dramatic but not in this instance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1635
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