reception room
noun
British
: a room in a house (such as a living room) that is used for sitting and not for cooking, sleeping, etc.
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The reception room in the main house has disappearing walls of glass.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
Delegates, having just been released from an afternoon of workshops on poll-watching and lawfare, flowed into the basement of the Hyatt near the San Francisco airport, forming a long queue by the reception room that would host Lara’s cocktail hour.
—Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
What was once a plain white landing has been turned into an intimate reception room, open by appointment only.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 20 June 2024
Left-wing activists set off bombs in the Capitol in 1983 and in 1971; five lawmakers were shot by Puerto Rican nationalists in the House chamber in 1954; a pro-German professor planted a bomb in a Senate reception room in 1915.
—Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
Delegates, having just been released from an afternoon of workshops on poll-watching and lawfare, flowed into the basement of the Hyatt near the San Francisco airport, forming a long queue by the reception room that would host Lara’s cocktail hour.
—Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
What was once a plain white landing has been turned into an intimate reception room, open by appointment only.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 20 June 2024
Left-wing activists set off bombs in the Capitol in 1983 and in 1971; five lawmakers were shot by Puerto Rican nationalists in the House chamber in 1954; a pro-German professor planted a bomb in a Senate reception room in 1915.
—Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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