withdrawing room


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a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained

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These were followed by the Withdrawing Room (Music Room), which had been resurrected as Mrs Hearst's dining room, in 1943.
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
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 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
The arrangement is similar to that at Hardwick Hall (another Cavendish property designed by the Smythsons), where a withdrawing room off a great chamber was designed to be used in this fashion; Girouard, 1989, 35.
"Pleasure reconciled to virtue": William Cavendish, Ben Jonson, and the decorative scheme of Bolsover Castle
The Great Dining Room also leads on through the Withdrawing Room and others into the Hall's most breathtaking room - the stunning LONG GALLERY.
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