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par·lour

(pär′lər)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of parlor.

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parlour

(ˈpɑːlə) or

parlor

1. (Architecture) old-fashioned a living room, esp one kept tidy for the reception of visitors

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a reception room in a priest's house, convent, etc

3. a small room for guests away from the public rooms in an inn, club, etc

4. (Commerce) chiefly US and Canadian and NZ a room or shop equipped as a place of business: a billiard parlor.

5. (Commerce) Caribbean a small shop, esp one selling cakes and nonalcoholic drinks

6. (Agriculture) Also called: milking parlour a building equipped for the milking of cows

[C13: from Anglo-Norman parlur, from Old French parleur room in convent for receiving guests, from parler to speak; see parley]

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par•lor

(ˈpɑr lər)

n.

1. a room in a home for receiving visitors; living room.

2. a shop or business establishment: ice-cream parlor; beauty parlor.

3. a somewhat private room in a hotel, club, or the like for relaxation, conversation, etc.; lounge.

adj.

4. advocating a political view or doctrine at a safe remove from actual involvement or commitment to action: parlor socialist.

Also, esp. Brit.,parlour.

[1175–1225; Middle English parlur < Anglo-French; Old French parleor=parl(er) to speak (see parley) + -eor -or²]

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Noun	1.	parlour - reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received parlor reception room - a room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel)
	2.	parlour - a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax front room, living room, living-room, sitting room, parlor common room - a sitting room (usually at school or university) dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" morning room - a sitting room used during the daylight hours room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" salon - elegant sitting room where guests are received

parlour

U.S. parlor

noun (Old-fashioned)

1. sitting room, lounge, living room, drawing room, front room, reception room, best room The guests were shown into the parlour.

2. establishment, shop, store, salon a funeral parlour

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Translations

صالون، مؤسَّسَة تَجْميلقاعَة الإسْتِقْبال

provozovnasalónsalónekústav

dagligstuesalon

Wohnzimmer Zimmer Salon

salon

-szalon

gestastofa, setustofa-stofa

istituto di bellezza salotto

svetainė

salons, kabinets, birojsviesistaba

-byrå finstue -salong

salónik

oturma odası salon

客厅接待室营业室

parlour

parlor (US) [ˈpɑːləʳ]

A. N (in house) → sala f, salón m
beauty parlour → salón m de belleza
ice-cream parlour → heladería f

B. CPD parlor car N (US) → coche-salón m
parlour game, parlor game (US) N → juego m de salón

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

parlour

[ˈpɑː^rlə^r] parlor (US) n (old-fashioned) (= living room) → salon mparlour game parlor game (US) n → jeu m de société

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parlour

, (US) parlor

(in house) → Salon m

(= beauty parlour, massage parlour etc) → Salon m; ice-cream parlour → Eisdiele f

parlour

parlour game

n → Gesellschaftsspiel nt

parlourmaid

n (Brit) → Dienstmädchen nt

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parlour

parlor (Am) [ˈpɑːləʳ] n (in house) → salotto
ice-cream parlour → gelateria

parlour

(American) parlor (ˈpaːlə) noun

1. a room in a (usually small) house used for sitting in and for entertaining guests.

2. room(s) for customers usually of firms providing particular services. a beauty parlo(u)r; a funeral parlo(u)r.

ˈparlour-maid noun

a female servant who opens the door to visitors, serves tea etc.

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Shades up in both parlors! Shades up in the two south bedrooms!

Burch said, if any sister would offer entertainment, they would pass the night, and have a parlor meeting in Riverboro to-morrow, with Mrs.

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Directing the coachman to a place under the shed in the big, clean, tidy yard, with charred, old-fashioned ploughs in it, the old man asked Levin to come into the parlor. A cleanly dressed young woman, with clogs on her bare feet, was scrubbing the floor in the new outer room.

The parlor was a big room, with a Dutch stove, and a screen dividing it into two.

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My room is a neat little spot `off the parlor' -- just big enough for the bed and me.

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But she must not make her come into the warm parlor; for, you know, our little snow-sister will not love the warmth."

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As she stepped nearer and peered longingly out, she saw something else: she saw, only a little way below the window, the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.

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The door was open into the parlor, where the corpse was laying, and there was a candle in both rooms.

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Twice he paused to snuff the air, and then anew directed his course towards the parlor window.

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My voice had evidently reached the ears of somebody in the back parlor. Who the person was I could not see, but I heard the rustle of a woman's dress.

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The party moved along the hall, the twins in advance, and entered the open parlor door, whence issued a low hum of conversation.

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Baker was "imprisoned"--in a parlor; and he could not have been more visited, or more overwhelmed with attentions, if he had committed six murders and then-- while the gallows was preparing--"got religion"--after the manner of the holy Charles Peace, of saintly memory.