I shall simply say that a Quarry is a Mind,
in the thought of the absolute what say the Sign,
how many treasures burrow??,
the brass to Iron on a state of Wealth is the known of just say a Flows,
with creek that is nigh a cactus yet knows the sand as bank,
what is eh pear with poe knee's on a steer??
Drafting on a score price slot tour its a Cheers??!!,
no,
this is the Ab of Stone Hinge that compass dirt be Foal??,
know!!
Trout are the river bread yet what grizzly will say strib,
from done jinn us on crab bull schapp what is the Suns be coal,
that is the virtue deep in skirt??,
no,
its the distant of a waltz to oh vault with how's the way,
is the face to the Butcher that would know My Mother on the days of Jim Jones scar,
to say that what is hugging life hugged My Mother with a bit less fret,
long lines from store shelf,
that a^part^meant said,
it took on shift to bee the cold to more than shivers cream.
As lets sea the present state of stew on the shale,
from BART to that Smart Train on days to Wake??,
the disturbing shook the sit deed lathe so vast a stream ago,
that the bay view barked at nothing for why would excitement shoe,
sew today to oh wow its clearly men knee Min. to bake,
that price per pound on round and round the Golden Gate to Fare Ease crate,
a box of bill the skate,
glue??
Drawing room
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the sixteenth-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the seventeenth century, and made their first written appearance in 1642.[1] In a large sixteenth- to early eighteenth-century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy. It was often off the great chamber (or the great chamber's descendant, the state room or salon) and usually led to a formal, or "state" bedroom.[2]
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In eighteenth-century London, the royal morning receptions that the French called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, where he would make his first formal public appearance of the day.
During the American Civil War, in the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, the drawing room was just off the parlor where C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis greeted his guests. At the conclusion of these greetings, the men remained in the parlor to talk politics and the women withdrew to the drawing room for their own conversation. This was common practice in the affluent circles of the Southern United States.
In 1865, an architectural manual in England defined "drawing room" in this way:[3]
Until the mid-twentieth century, after a dinner the ladies of a dinner party withdrew to the drawing room, leaving the gentlemen at table, where the tablecloth was removed. After an interval of conversation, the gentlemen rejoined the ladies in the drawing room.
The term drawing room is not used as widely as it once was, and tends to be used in Britain only by those who also have other reception rooms, such as a morning room, a nineteenth-century designation for a sitting-room, often with east-facing exposure, suited for daytime calls, or the middle-class lounge, a late nineteenth-century designation for a room in which to relax; hence the drawing room is the smartest room in the house, usually used by the adults of the family when entertaining. This term is still widely used in India and Pakistan, probably dating from the colonial days, in the larger urban houses of the cities where there are many rooms.
The term parlour initially designated the more modest reception rooms of the middle classes, but usage changed in the UK as homeowners sought to identify with the grander homes of the wealthy. Parlor remained the common usage in North America into the 20th century. In French usage the word salon, previously designating a state room, began to be used for a drawing room in the early part of the 19th century, reflecting the salon social gatherings that had become popular in the preceding decades.
Railway usage[edit]
The term drawing room was historically also applied to certain passenger train accommodations, designating some of the most spacious and expensive private accommodations available on board a sleeping car or private railway car. In North America, it meant a room which slept three or more persons, with a private washroom.[4] Although Amtrak has retired its sleeping cars that were built with drawing rooms, they are still used by Via Rail Canada; the traditional nomenclature is seen as archaic, so they are officially marketed as "triple bedrooms".
Drawing-room plays[edit]
The drawing room, being a room in the house to entertain visitors, gave its name to drawing room plays, a genre of theatrical productions and motion pictures. Beginning with the early forms of drama, the drawing room play has evolved to encompass comedy as well as to include the forms of the dramatic monologue. The play format itself has also grown out of the traditional drawing room performance and back into main street theater and film. While the drawing room itself has fallen out of favor, the play format has continued to provide a source of entertainment.
Drawing room comedy typically features wit and verbal banter among wealthy, leisured, genteel, upper class characters. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes called the "comedy of manners." Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and several of the plays of Noël Coward are typical works of the genre. George Bernard Shaw'sHeartbreak House adds an undercurrent of social criticism to the genre. Cary Grant appeared in a number of filmed drawing-room comedies. Ernst Lubitsch was especially known as a director of drawing-room comedies.
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