The phrase "a receiving room" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a designated space where guests or visitors are welcomed or received, often found in homes, offices, or public buildings.
Example: "The hotel features a beautifully decorated receiving room where guests can relax before check-in."
Alternatives: "a reception area" or "a waiting room."
Mr. Charach, a 36-year-old teacher, said that at the hospital he saw a group of officers in a receiving room.
He says tables in a receiving room in the palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, where he met the sultan, were overloaded with trinkets from abroad.
A work by the 17th-century Dutch landscape painter Aelbert Cuyp, its title is obviously the product of its age, though given the thousands of other options some might have found said moniker faintly jarring for a receiving room.
The other room was clinical and tidy — a receiving room, with a gray sofa and a small desk, where the green pages of Davis's next scene were laid out.
Agreeing to listen out for the doorbell, we move into a graceful, small drawing room at the front of the house, more like a receiving room from another era where you might give your card to a maid and wait in hope.
"If the man had had a miraculous recovery and doctors said he'd live another 10 years, I'm sure a letter would say fine, 'Start the trial.' " Sitting in a receiving room at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with a view of Saint Peter's out the window and an oil portrait of Cardinal Ratzinger on the wall, Cardinal Levada expressed pain at the case of Father Murphy.
A method to calculate the total absorption, A, of the receiving room is introduced by simulation of the reverberation time measurement procedure using Transient acoustic response analysis.
The audience for "Elective Affinities" assembles in a stately receiving room, where tea and finger food is served, while a pianist discreetly plays Chopin next to an immense black abstract sculpture (made to order by Zane Wilson), which will serve as the conversation starter for Alice's little speech.
Sitting in an ornate receiving room in the presidential palace, he discussed the resonances of being president of Bolivia, where more than 60percentt of the population is indigenous.
"It would be cruel of me to answer this question, to say yes or no and take away the bread of journalists," he said recently in an interview in his receiving room, adorned with portraits of a saint and a czar.
I spent the whole evening lost in a fever of anticipation, barely able to participate in adult conversation as I thought of the object that at that moment was sitting in a box in the receiving room of the bookstore down the street.
