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/rɪsˈɛpʃən rum/ Listen

Reception room

noun

A room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel).

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"Reception room" Quotes from Famous Books

... there were many divisions into rooms. The Agha's wife had hers, separated completely from her sister's, and there was space for guests, besides the Agha's own quarters, his reception room, his dining-room (invaded to-night by all his family) the kitchen, and sleeping place for ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... kind-hearted woman, "it's just as well to have him come to-day. Suppose we have tea in the small reception room, it's cosier ...

— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells

... the school free use of two rooms as long as it remained. In the court yard before them a large tent was pitched, that served for dining room, dormitory, and reception room, or diwan khaneh. An adjoining house afforded a comfortable recitation room. Here the regular routine of the school went on, and while men from the village found their way to Mr. Stocking's at the hour of evening prayer, women also came to the school ...

— Woman And Her Saviour In Persia • A Returned Missionary

... he suspects, anyway. Then, he's down in the slums there most of the time, and he could help us. Besides, he's got some rights of safety himself. He's out in the reception room now, under guard of that ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... Oliver was now moved by day into a huge reception room, and these people of the court were expected to stop at one end of it while she conversed with him at the other, to all intents and purposes, save for the presence of myself and Quick, her calls were ...

— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard

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