Obs. [f. prec. vbl. sb.] = next.
1392–3. Rolls Parlt., III. 300/2. Triours des Petitions … tendront lour place en la Chapelle de la Withdrawyng Chambre.
1444. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), II. 102. Item lego eidem j. burded-bedd in le withdrawynchambre.
1589. Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 73. Samela … flung away to her withdrawing chamber in a dissembled rage.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. (1693), 119. The Bishop being in a withdrawing Chamber, read over the Order so often, that … he got it by heart verbatim.
fig. 1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 7. In the Lararijs, and withdrawing chambers of your History of Tithes.
