What's the point of a "drawing room"? like what's it for?
like what's it for?
Answers: Actually the above answer is with the sole purpose half correct. Drawing room is a shortening of Withdrawing room but it be the ladies who withdrew from the gentlemen contained by the dining room who remained to drink port and smoke. The gentlement then attached the ladies afterwards in the Withdrawing Room. I be there!! This be before ladies drank Port and smoked!
Actually, "drawing room" is a shortening for "withdrawing room." In the 18OO- hasty 1900s, it was a formal room bejewelled somewhat like a den, where on earth the men would "withdraw" from the ladies' company after dinner to smoke and drink.