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parlor

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par⋅lor

  [pahr-ler]
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–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.
Also, especially British, parlour.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME parlur < AF; OF parleor, equiv. to parl(er) to speak (see parle ) + -eor -or 2
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par·lor   (pär'lər)   
n.  

  1. A room in a private home set apart for the entertainment of visitors.

  2. A small lounge or sitting room affording limited privacy, as at an inn or tavern.

  3. A room equipped and furnished for a special function or business: a tanning parlor.


[Middle English parlur, from Old French, from parler, to talk; see parley.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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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