withdrawing room


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a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained

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In December 1925 Hearst bought the Withdrawing Room (Music Room) for $29,000 and this was also sent to Sands Point --and re-erected as a dining room.
Sale of the century: Hamilton Palace was one of Britain's greatest ducal houses, but when it was demolished in the 1920s, its contents had already been sold in a series of spectacular auctions--to a new breed of American collector, epitomised by William Randolph Hearst
on the right hand of the vestibule you find a handsome withdrawing room for the mistress of the house to entertain company in, with a private door to the staircase for her servants to bring any thing (without exposing it to people who may be waiting in the vestibule).
Open house Georgian style: a revolution in sociability took place among the genteel and 'middling' classes of 18th-century England, as visiting friends of similar social status became a leisure pursuit in itself, especially among women
Park where instructed, cross the road with care and you pass an open conservatory which is used as a smokatorium and go into a buzzy inn with a snug, a bar, a withdrawing room with dining tables, a further dining room and a brace of what they call 'toilets' - there are two more of these outside, although the men's WC has a lock which fails to work.
WARM AND COSY; ON LOCATION In the second part of a week-long series in which our top writers go out and about to report from all corners of the racing and betting world, Sir Clement Freud spends a day at the Racing Post pub of the year - The Plough - in the hamlet of Ford, Gloucestershire, before ending the day with a visit to the dogs in Swindon
The author is on firmer ground when suggesting that this tower was an impressive viewing platform overlooking the town and the deer park with the inner drum tower as a withdrawing room or 'executive box'.
Castles, crown and countryside
The card room where gentlemen played and the withdrawing room where ladies dallied.
A blast from the past in Jane Austen country; Sarah Batley finds romance alive and kicking in Bath ... if only she could bump into her hero Mr Darcy
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