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echo: english_tutor
to: Dallas Hinton
from: alexander koryagin
date: 2017-09-29 16:45:12
subject: Drawing room

Hi, Dallas Hinton!
I read your message from  28.09.2017 04:18
about Drawing room.

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

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withdrawn from the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

A room to have a rest, in short. Another word is probably
"hermitage." So, when you are in St. Petersburg, Russia, you can
see the Hermitage or the Russian Tzars' (with)drawing room. ;)

In modern day, especially if you are married with children, it is a rest room. ;)

Bye, Dallas!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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