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Definition of Billiard parlour
1. Noun. A room in which billiards is played.
Generic synonyms: Room
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billiard Parlour
Literary usage of Billiard parlour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Toronto: Past and Present: A Handbook of the City by Charles Pelham Mulvany (1884)
"... highly ornamented brackets, and in short, every possible requisite for furnishing
the most elaborate and luxurious billiard parlour. ..."
2. Travels in Search of a Settler's Guide-book of America and Canada by George Jacob Holyoake (1884)
"There is a ladies' billiard parlour in the cupola. It stands on the bank of the
Rio Gallinas (pronounced ..."
3. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"He goes to a billiard parlour to watch a game of billiards between his friend
Bill Botts and another fellow he doesn't like and of course ..."
4. Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson (1916)
"The men sort of slouched off down to the front gate and then went down to the
Temperance billiard parlour, where several of 'em got stewed. ..."
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