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noun
1.
Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
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a room, apartment, or building serving as a place of business for certain businesses or professions: funeral parlor; beauty parlor.
3.
a somewhat private room in a hotel, club, or the like for relaxation, conversation, etc.; lounge.
4.
Also called locutorium. a room in a monastery or the like where the inhabitants may converse with visitors or with each other.
adjective
5.
advocating something, as a political view or doctrine, at a safe remove from actual involvement in or commitment to action: parlor leftism; parlor pink.
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Parlor
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Example Sentences
- The numbers parlor was in the back room of the grocery store, the police said.
- To those who fear the cleanliness of the tatoo parlor you should visit one.
- One pizza parlor now serves triangular pies on triangular platters.
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Word Origin & History
parlor
early 13c., parlur, from O.Fr. parleor (12c.), from parler "to speak" (see parley). Originally "window through which confessions were made," also "apartment in a monastery for conversations with outside persons;" sense of "sitting room for private conversation" is late 14c.;
EXPANDthat in ice cream parlor is first recorded 1884.
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