- Drawing room - Reception room - Sitting room - A room for business or social conversation, for the
reception of guests, etc. - The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates
are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors
and friends from without. - In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and
for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the
drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having
few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually
on the ground floor. - Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room
where visitors are received and entertained.
- Making hot; producing or communicating heat. - An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a
sitting room. - A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a
chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to
warm his hands with.
- Covered porch - Inside, over and above roofed deck - open terrace area - Porch - Portico - An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling
house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
- A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being
more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main
edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not
for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.