Parlour

//ˈpɑːlə//

"Parlour" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Whenever I'm at the pizza parlour, I make you self-conscious. You always think there has to be something happening.

The activity of the left brain increases, as I sit in the pizza parlour.

Holmes leaned forward and whispered something in the trainer's ear. He started violently and flushed to the temples. "It's a lie!" he shouted, "an infernal lie!" "Very good. Shall we argue about it here in public or talk it over in your parlour?" "Oh, come in if you wish to."

I had come into the parlour unexpected, and as I walked in at the door I saw a light of welcome on my wife’s face. But as she saw who it was it faded again, and she turned away with a look of disappointment.

The ice-cream parlour offers over a hundred different kinds of ice cream.

"Diana Barry, who do you suppose is in that parlour at this very moment? Mrs. Charlotte E. Morgan . . . and a New York millionaire's wife . . . and here I am like THIS . . . and not a thing in the house for dinner but a cold ham bone, Diana!"

Anne ushered her guests to the spare room and thence into the parlour, where she left them while she hastened out to help Priscilla unharness her horse.

At the beauty parlour I told them I wanted just a little taken off of my bangs, but look, completely straight!

A new ice-cream parlour has opened in King Street. Shall we go there?

From about 2014, I was a regular customer at Pizza Hut. Then around 2016, I started haunting the ice-cream parlour DQ. 7-11 was always a quick stop for many years. And I sometimes visit the sandwich-makers at Subway. I started going to Gami Sushi restaurant around 2017.

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Will you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; / 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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