In fact, Thoreau even has a withdrawing room - instead of a drawing room - in the pine forest behind his house that has infinitely more space.
And now she sat in the withdrawing room, listening to Lorraine chatter on while the blood in her temples pounded painfully.
Miss Howitt whispered in the dowager's ear and went off to find the ladies' withdrawing room.
At Little Moreton William Moreton employed the carpenter Richard Dale to add turret-like bay windows (dated in carved inscriptions 1559) to the hall and withdrawing room of a mid-C15 timber-framed house.
Conceptually, Nicholas Bacon's Long Gallery looks much like Montaigne's library - a textualized withdrawing room that figures its builder's social and private character.