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drawing-room comedy

[ draw-ing-room, -room ]

noun

, Theater.
  1. a light, sophisticated comedy typically set in a drawing room with characters drawn from polite society.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of drawing-room comedy1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

I am wearing a large straw hat with blue ribbons, and a white dress and a blue sash, like the ingnue in a drawing-room comedy.

And he sat through it as silent and seemingly unmoved as though she had been rehearsing a speech for some drawing-room comedy.

He was as much out of place as would a low comedian on being suddenly called upon to undertake 'drawing-room comedy.'

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