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Definition of Parlors
1. parlor [n] - See also: parlor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parlors
Literary usage of Parlors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supplement ... to the Public Health Reports by United States Public Health Service (1921)
"Barber and Manicure Shops, Beauty parlors, and Public Baths—Sanitary ... In barber
shops, hairdressing, and beauty and manicure parlors all combs, ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"PARISIAN parlors FROM 1620 TO 1790. JOHN STUART MILL, in his autobiography,
excuses his retired mode of life thus: 1' General society as DOW carried on in ..."
3. A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at by Catharine Esther Beecher (1854)
"CHAPTER XXIX UN THE CARE OF parlors. IN selecting the furniture of parlors, some
reference .should be had to correspondence of shades and colors. ..."
4. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"The Dawn of the New Century—Washington Convention—Congressional Hearing — Woman's
Protest—May Anniversary—Centennial parlors in Philadelphia—Letters and ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"Hyde, Mrs. Henry В., New York, gift to Saratoga Hospital, a full equipment of
sun-parlors. Inness, George, New York, gift to the Artists' Fund Society, ..."
6. The Secrets of Specialists by Alfred Dale Covey (1905)
"One of the most amusing incidents the writer has ever had in investigating beauty
culture, was to visit the parlors of an itinerant beauty specialist, ..."
7. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1855)
"Do fields and meadows exercise greater influence over us than our parlors, our
bedchambers, our nurseries, and our school-rooms? These scenes are constantly ..."
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