withdrawing room

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A large apartment at the east end of the warehouses will be reserved as a withdrawing room for the ladies, and is partitioned off for that purpose. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various

The withdrawing room of old England was the quiet room to which the ladies retired, leaving their lords to the freer pleasures of the great hall.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

My "best" room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

We of the peaceful professions—videlicet, my daughter Waller and I—did descend from the bartizan, and   betook ourselves to the great withdrawing room, to wait for the result of the approach.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

Anthony followed her gratefully upstairs and presently into a small withdrawing room upon the first floor.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford