parlor
English
Alternative forms
- parlour (British)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman parlur and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French parleor, from the verb parler (“to speak”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lə(ɹ)
Noun
parlor (plural parlors)
- The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
- (archaic) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
- (archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
- (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
- A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
- A shed used for milking cattle.
Derived terms
Translations
room for talking, room for entertaining guests, living room
drawing room
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comfortable room in a public house
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shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
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shed used for milking cattle
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Further reading
- “parlor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “parlor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “parlor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Cebuano
Etymology
Short for English beauty parlor.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: par‧lor
Noun
parlor
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