drawing room
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈdrɔɪŋ ruːm/
- Archaic
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camarote
- A drawing room on board the Apache Plainsliner bound for the California coast.
Examples
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After our dinner reservation, we retreated to the drawing room to relax before boarding the train.
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-Promise not to go into the drawing room.
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Hank, get a drawing room to New York.
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Drawing room A, car 71.
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Isn't this Drawing Room A, car 71?
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There were also two piercing rooms and a drawing room located on the long corridor linking the front lobby to the back office.
Academic text (2012) -
The train's drawing room offered a cozy space for sleeping, complete with three bunks and a private bathroom.
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They booked a drawing room for their overnight journey, which ensured they had some privacy during the trip.
Synonyms
108
1.3
A small room for people on a plane or ship
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5.8
A private cabin on a ship or train with a bed and bathroom
A sleeping compartment on a train with bunks for overnight travel
Surface Forms
Morphology
drawing + room
A B1 learner who knows 'drawing' (likely as a picture or as the gerund of 'draw') and 'room' would not predict the specialized railway sense 'private compartment on a sleeper rail car.' The compound is historically non-compositional (from 'withdrawing room') and the current meanings (reception room or rail compartment) are lexicalized and domain-specific, so the overall sense cannot be derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Drawing room was later used by train companies for a private space on sleeper cars that felt like a small sitting room, with sleeping bunks and its own toilet. So on trains a drawing room means a private sleeping compartment with bunks and a toilet.