[
US
/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːlɐ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːlɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
- reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
How To Use parlor In A Sentence
- Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
- Make a fortune and have fun Come to the pachinko parlor!
- He admitted to five different affairs and countless visits to massage parlors for ‘full-body’ massages.
- Erin Lyle, co-owner of Marty's Auto on Rathbone Avenue, told the Daily Herald "We have three houses right next to us and we've never had a noise or nuisance issue ... they're (city) not picking on tattoo parlors or grocery stores or anyone else. Archive 2009-04-01
- A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.
- To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
- The three of us went into the ice cream parlor behind us.
- It looked, to be sure, nothing like the milky portraits we had been shown in Sunday school, looked hardly at all like the handsome gentleman with the Aryan profile and the five-hundred-watt glow who effulged at us from calendars in Protestant parlors all over Dixie. Another Roadside Attraction
- The term parlor generally denotes something other than massage within the industry. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
- Mom may phone out for Chinese food or ask the local pizza parlor to deliver.