parlance

How To Use parlance In A Sentence

• Is there a justification for retaining the word in literature from the past, when its use would have reflected common parlance?
• After a total of two hours and a quarter we reached Banza Chisalla: it is a “small country,” in African parlance, a succursal of Boma proper, the Banza on the hills beyond the reedy, grassy plain. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• In caving parlance, a "dry cave" is one which a human visitor can explore without getting wet. Caves and Cave Life
• In the brawny parlance of the great unwashed: a crunch match. THE CALLIGRAPHER
• In today's parlance, it looks like a bumbag that's been shifted north.
• They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor. Richard H. Smith: Could a California Budget Fix Threaten National Security?
• The term flip-flop, meaning a political reversal, has been a fixture in popular American parlance at least since the 1880s. NPR Topics: News
• Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
• So says J.P. Morgan Chase, which has downgraded the company to "underweight" -- meaning, in its parlance, "sell. Foreign, Energy Bets Start to Haunt Janus
• Indeed, the lemma paella has become so deeply entrenched in our everyday parlance that it has lost its connection to the etymon patina (patena) and later patella, meaning Do Bianchi