1. a room in a large private house in which guests can be received and entertained.
▪ consciously refined, light-hearted, and elegant: "drawing-room small talk"
▪ (of a song or play) characterized by a polite observance of social proprieties:"a stock figure of Thirties drawing-room comedy"
Word Originmid 17th century (denoting a private room attached to a more public one): abbreviation of 16th-century withdrawing-room ‘a room to withdraw to’.
