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parlour

[ UK /pˈɑːlɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑɹɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  2. reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received

How To Use parlour In A Sentence

  • And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
  • Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
  • Antoinette this is Brenda our parlourmaid, and Nellie our housemaid.
  • The house comprised a kitchen, a little hall, lower parlour, pantry, two cellars, a hall above stairs, an upper parlour and four chambers with cocklofts above.
  • The morrice dancers accordingly set out upon their further progress, dancing and carolling as they went along to the sound of four musicians, who led the joyous band, while Simon Glover drew their coryphaeus into his house, and placed him in a chair by his parlour fire. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.
  • Archie shuffled his feet and looked as if he'd like to vanish up his parlour chimney.
  • The new parlour is capable of milking the cows in 50 minutes.
  • Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.
  • The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
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