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Definition of Parlor

1. Noun. Reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.

2. Noun. A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax.

Definition of Parlor

1. n. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.

Definition of Parlor

1. Noun. (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio. ¹

2. Noun. A room for lounging (especially for reading); a sitting-room; a drawing room. ¹

3. Noun. (archaic) 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 the outside. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parlor

1. a room for the entertainment of visitors [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parlor

parlez vousing parliament parliamental parliamentarian parliamentarily parliamentary parliamentary agent parliamentary democracy parliamentary law parliamentary monarchy

parliamentary procedure parliamentlike parliaments parlies parling parlor (current term) parlor-game parlor-games parlor car parlor game

parlor grand parlor grand piano parlormaid parlormaids parlors parlour parlour-game parlour car parlour game parlour games

Literary usage of Parlor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George Jackson Kneeland, Katharine Bement Davis (1913)
"COMMERCIALIZED PROSTITUTION IN NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER I VICE RESORTS:1 (a) parlor HOUSES THE actual business of prostitution in New York City is conducted in ..."

2. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"(li) Scrap value of salvage or the amount received from sale of parlor and ... Note A.—parlor and chair care permanently retired from service but held. ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"The hall is 9 Ox2<H', from which ready access is had to the parlor, ... The parlor ie on the west side of the hall, and, with its embayed window, ..."

4. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"The Illinois Traction System inaugurated an extensive parlor ... parlor cars are attached to limited trains, but not all limited trains have parlor cars. ..."

5. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"parlor. But bounce into the parlour enter'd. LS 56. Parlour. See parlor. Parnassus. Left their Parnassus for the ..."

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