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Definition of Parlor game
1. Noun. A game suitable for playing in a parlor.
Definition of Parlor game
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of parlour game) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parlor Game
Literary usage of Parlor game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"A new parlor game, just ready. Invented by an officer of the army, serving in
the lar West. Three distinct games for the discipline of the mind, memory, ..."
2. The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of by Henry Chadwick (1884)
"THIS parlor game affords an opportunity for a species of billiard-playing which
those who are not practised in billiards can fully enjoy, without any very ..."
3. Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 by Janet Allen (1999)
"Played like the parlor game dictionary. Players create phony but believable
definitions for given words and earn points for selecting the correct definition ..."
4. The Knights of the Holy Grail: A Solution of the Boy Problem by Perry Edwards Powell (1906)
"parlor game of Baseball. Card Game of Politics. Table Game of Golf. Tiddly Wink
Ring Game. Comic Conversation Cards. Donkey Game. Chinaman Game. ..."
5. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"It is also an excellent parlor game, and is full of sport if played by quick,
alert players. This game is from Denmark. SMUGGLING THE GEG 10 or 30 to more ..."
6. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"It is also an excellent parlor game, and is full of sport if played by quick,
alert players. This game is from Denmark. SMUGGLING THE GEG 10 or 30 to more ..."
7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"Were precautions taken that no floor shadows of the object should be cast, and
has Mr. Guthrie ever tried that other parlor game, once very popular in this ..."
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