Definition of "reception-room" [reception-room]

• A room for the reception of visitors. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "-- "Miss Judson, please tell those people in the reception-room to be patient.""
• "Doctor Emory continued to talk, and tried a fresh cigar, and, despite the fact that his reception-room was overflowing, delivered, not merely a long, but a live and interesting, dissertation on the subject of cigars and of the tobacco leaf and filler as grown and prepared for cigars in the tobacco-favoured regions of the earth."
• "For which reason, one morning at eleven, taking Kwaque along, he called at Walter Merritt Emory's office and waited his turn in the crowded reception-room."