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A row about the Spanish drawing room (7)

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I believe the answer is:

atelier

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'drawing room' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'a row about the spanish' is the wordplay.
'row' becomes 'tier' (a tier is a row of things).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'the spanish' becomes 'el' ('the' in Spanish).
'tier' placed around 'el' is 'telier'.
'a'+'telier'='ATELIER'

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(Other definitions for atelier that I've seen before include "I relate to workshop used by artist" , "Artist's workshop, studio" , "Artist's studio (French)" , "Tie earl up in the artist's place" , "Designer's workshop" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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