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Parlor
//ˈpɑːlə// noun
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Noun
- 1 The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
"So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all."
- 2 a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax wordnet
- 3 The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside. archaic
- 4 reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received wordnet
- 5 A comfortable room in a public house. dated
"Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way."
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- 6 A covered open-air patio. Southern-US
- 7 A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
"tattoo parlor pizza parlor ice cream parlor"
- 8 A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.; Ellipsis of beauty parlor. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 9 A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir.
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