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Question: Why is a drawing room called so? We don't draw painting in this room then, we do call it drawing room? (Asked by Ayaz Ahmad Awan) Answer: In England (around the 17th century), after dinner, the men of the house used to assemble for wine and cigars or just linger on in the same room. The women would withdraw to a different room called the withdrawing room, for obvious reasons. The word ''drawing room is just a crude change of the original withdrawing room
The term drawing is applied to works that vary greatly in technique. It has been understood in different ways at different times and is difficult to define. During the Renaissance the term 'disegno' implied drawing both as a technique to be distinguished from colouring and also as the creative idea made visible in the preliminary sketch. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines drawing as: