parlour game

NOUN
  1. a game suitable for playing in a parlor
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How To Use parlour game In A Sentence

  • Moll took a moment to try to decipher it, feeling like she was playing an odd parlour game of charades.
  • There is a hoary parlour game in which participants are challenged to name ten famous Belgians. Times, Sunday Times
  • That was how they wanted me to dress because it was a daytime parlour game. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here is a parlour game of political identification.
  • Reading and parlour games such as charades are preferred.
  • Already this has been a tour where attempting to explain the inexplicable has become a parlour game.
  • As the Van Doren family play their favourite parlour game - trading Shakespearian quotes across the dinner table - an arriviste young lawyer watches, open-mouthed and clearly intimidated.
  • Was this just a parlour game used by lecturers to involve the class? TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
  • Can such parlour games be of any use? Times, Sunday Times
  • Otherwise what are you going to do with the magic, just treat it like a little parlour game for the rest of your life and gabble about it on the net afterwards?
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