Draw'ing-room, n.

(28), n. [Abbreviated from withdrawing-room, q. v.]

1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining-room.
2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.

He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay.