parlor
Use Parlor in a sentence
lər noun
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.
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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parlour or (US) parlor (ˈpɑːlə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | old-fashioned a living room, esp one kept tidy for the reception of visitors |
| 2. | a reception room in a priest's house, convent, etc |
| 3. | a small room for guests away from the public rooms in an inn, club, etc |
| 4. | chiefly (US), (Canadian), (NZ) a room or shop equipped as a place of business: a billiard parlor |
| 5. | (Caribbean) a small shop, esp one selling cakes and nonalcoholic drinks |
| 6. | Also called: milking parlour a building equipped for the milking of cows |
| [C13: from Anglo-Norman parlur, from Old French parleur room in convent for receiving guests, from parler to speak; see | |
| parlor or (US) parlor | |
| —n | |
| [C13: from Anglo-Norman parlur, from Old French parleur room in convent for receiving guests, from parler to speak; see | |
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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.;
that in ice cream parlor is first recorded 1884.
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Example sentences
His invention allowed him to stow his bed in his closet, transforming his one-room apartment from a bedroom into a parlor.
The parlor-maid keeps the drawing-room and library in order.
The house is illustrative of the evolution of a southern one-room brick structure into a hall-and-parlor plan house.
But her parlor tricks don't make up for her lack of social etiquette.
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