drawing room In big, old-fashioned houses, a large and elegant room in which people gathered in the evening for conversation. prattle unimportant chatter The basic idea here is that LaFitte knew how to fit easily into polite society. Clive
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rpshI know the meaning of prattle if it's not a idiom here.It's not an idiom. It's really 'prattle' (that takes place in a drawing room).