Subj : Drawing room
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Dallas Hinton
Date : Thu Sep 28 2017 12:18:34

Hi alexander -- on Sep 28 2017 at 15:56, you wrote:

ak> What do the Englishmen draw in drawing rooms? Why do you call it
ak> "drawing room"? ;-)

It's a shortened form of "withdrawing" room -- as in, withdrawn from the 
company of the opposite sex.


Cheers... Dallas

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