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parlor

Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːlə/

The English word “parlor” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
  2. 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.
  3. A comfortable room in a public house.
  4. A covered open-air patio.
  5. A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
  6. A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.

adjective

  1. Used in or appropriate for a parlor.
  2. Advocating something in a secluded place without actual involvement or action.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir. Displaced native Old English sprǣchūs.

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