drawing rooms
Victorian entertaining spaces
A drawing room is a formal reception room in a large house, traditionally where guests were received and entertained.
The term derives from "withdrawing room"—a space to withdraw to after dinner.
The phrase sounds old-fashioned or British to American ears: The ladies retired to the drawing room.
Drawing-room as an adjective suggests refined or polite society: drawing-room manners.
- sitting roomRoom for relaxing together
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- living roomsPrimary domestic gathering spaces
- loungeComfortable waiting room
- calling cardsPersonal contact slips
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- Victorian eraparlour, Victorian etiquette, etiquette, parlor games, courtship
- estate toursmansion tours, castle tours, winery tours, vineyard tours, plantation tours
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- Edwardian BritainEdward VII, Queen Victoria, country houses, manor houses, servants
- Regency SocietyRegency, manners, etiquette, courtship, ballrooms
- Victorian etiquettecalling hours, visiting cards, chaperoning, propriety, decorum
drawing roomskitchens
Rooms for preparing food
sculleries · servants' quarters · laundry rooms · pantries · mudrooms
drawing roomsservants' quarters
Housing for domestic employees
sculleries · back stairs · below stairs · kitchens · pantries
drawing roomshovels
Squalid, cramped dwellings
shacks · slums · tenements · poorhouses · workhouses
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