parlour game
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See also: parlour-game
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Noun[edit]
parlour game (plural parlour games)
- Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering.
- 1918, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Foe-Farrell, Prologue:
- Do you know that parlour-game, Yarrell dear? Are you a performer at Musical Chairs?
- (politics, figuratively) The use of deliberately nebulous or confusing language.
Synonyms[edit]
- (deliberately confusing language): doublespeak
Translations[edit]
amusing game played indoors with few props
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