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Definition of Parlours
1. parlour [n] - See also: parlour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parlours
Literary usage of Parlours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"Every night large cabbage-leaves, containing the lees of beer, were spread about
the flower-beds as traps, and at dawn these had become green parlours ..."
2. The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 by James Knox Polk, Milo Milton Quaife (1910)
"This evening all the parlours were opened for the reception of company, notice
having been given in the newspapers to that effect. ..."
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