Drawing room seems a very formal name for it," Helen said.
Of course we're used to it, because Grandmother Emerson always calls her parlor a drawing room, but she has a huge, big room, so my idea of a drawing room is always something immense.
Thus, for the living room or drawing room, the yellows, oranges and golden browns, which combine the cheer of yellow and the warmth of red, are excellent.
If a restful instead of a cheerful quality is desired for the living room or drawing room, green may be made the dominant hue.
The tea service is merely brought to the sun parlor, drawing room or living room in which the tea is to be served, and placed on the table.
Prince Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it had had in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room.
Prince Vasili said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room.
These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room.
This influence was more marked after she became the wife of the Swedish ambassador, as she continued for some time to pass her evenings in her mother's drawing room, where she became more and more a central figure.
The women who made themselves felt and heard above the din of revolution, though by no means deficient in the graces, were mainly distinguished for quite other qualities than those which shine in a drawing room or lead a coterie.
She would have felt cramped and caged in the conventional atmosphere of a drawing room in which the gravest problems were apt to be forgotten in the flash of an epigram or the turn of a bon mot.
A romantic adventure, a bit of scandal, a drawing room incident, or a personal pique, was a fruitful theme.
Again, take the case of the amiable feminine crowds which collect upon the Mall whenever Her Majesty holds a Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace.
Under the heading "To-day's Drawing Room," they encounter a description of incidents which they themselves have witnessed.
The three gentlemen were yet assembled in the Prince's drawing room, conversing and imparting to one another their fears and hopes.
A few minutes later the gentleman announced entered the Prince's drawing room.
Herr von Leuchtmar hastened to obey the summons, and to repair to the Prince's drawing room.
Can you imagine any topic being discussed in a drawing room, nowadays, from any other standpoint?
Ella was standing waiting for her outside the open door of a drawing room.
When Phyllis was leaving the house half an hour later, a man was just entering the first drawing room--a man with a face burnt to the color of an old mezzotint.
He spoke with all the fervor of the preacher, with pale face, brilliant eyes, and clenched hands; but in a voice adapted to a drawing room.
I am afraid I should get so nervous in a drawing room, but of course it is just as you think best.
Is this a drawing room or a dining room" enquired Helen, looking at the pretty pictures, the sofa and various drawing room articles.
And so, without a moments delay, she marched downstairs and into the drawing room.
Why should I have told you how I prize music, except to explain that I will never become a drawing room teacher, that I would rather starve than share in the universal sin of the jingling, bungling profanation of what I hold sacred?
When Rule Rothsay entered the front drawing room he found there a young merchant marine captain whom he had known for many years, though not intimately.
Cora walked slowly back into the drawing room, at the open door of which stood Sylvan, who had heard all that passed.
On the ninth day after the disappearance of her lover-husband she made an effort and came down into the drawing room, to please the gentle old grandmother.
Cora met him first at the queen's drawing room, and afterward at every ball and party to which she went.
A footman hired for the evening was ushering the guests into the small drawing room, a narrow slip of a place in which only four armchairs had been left in order the better to pack in the company.
After having lived there seventeen years she certainly would not alter her drawing room now.
Vandeuvres repeated the same phrases, and for a moment or two one was again in the Muffats' drawing room, the only difference being that the ladies were changed.
The parterres and the park are, again, a drawing room in the open air.
But, so long as the court remains what it is, that is to say, a pompous parade and a drawing room decoration, the king himself must likewise remain a showy decoration, of little or no use.
Besides, in a drawing room there is only drawing room conversation, and the master's thoughts, instead of being directed in a profitable channel, must be scattered about like the holy water of the court.
The vast royal tree, expanding so luxuriantly at Versailles, sends forth its offshoots to overrun France by thousands, and to bloom everywhere, as at Versailles, in bouquets of finery and of drawing room sociability.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drawing room" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
