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par·lor 
[pahr-ler] Pronunciation Key
[pahr-ler] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
| 1. | Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 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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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| par·lor
(pär'lər) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English parlur, from Old French, from parler, to talk; see parley.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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parlor
c.1225, 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 c.1374; that in ice cream parlor is first recorded 1884.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| parlor | |
noun | |
| 1. | reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received |
| 2. | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax [syn: living room] |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Parlor
Par"lor\, n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See Parley.] [Written also parlour.] A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. --Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained. Note: "In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently." --Fitzed. Hall. Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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