2 Metaphors for ballroom

" The ballroom of the tavern remains exactly as it was,a fireplace at one end filled with ashes of burnt-out revelries, a little railing at one side where the fiddlers sat, the old benches along the side,all remind one of the gayeties of long ago.

At eight o'clock the ballroom was a blaze of light and the guests had begun to assemble; for there was a literary programme and some routine business of the society to be gone through with before the dancing.

2 Metaphors for  ballroom