parlor.
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
Meaning & usage
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
A comfortable room in a public house.
A covered open-air patio.
A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
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A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context. Ellipsis of beauty parlor.
A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir. Displaced native Old English sprǣchūs.
Used in or appropriate for a parlor.
Parlor painting.
Advocating something in a secluded place without actual involvement or action.
Parlor socialism.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir. Displaced native Old English sprǣchūs.
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