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The term "withdrawing room" is making me feel unmoored in time here. The term was most popular in the 1600s but remained in use through the early 1700s. By the 1800s, it had been shortened to "drawing room." And in Trollope, it's established that one of the characters is affectedly old-fashioned when she insists on using "withdrawing room" instead of "drawing room."