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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parlour /ˈpɑːlə(r)/ (US parlor)
▶noun
  • 1 dated a sitting room in a private house.
  • 2 a room in a public building, hotel, monastery, etc. for receiving guests or private conversation.
  • 3 a shop or business providing specified goods or services: an ice-cream parlour.
  • 4 a room or building equipped for milking cows.
▶adjective derogatory denoting a person who professes but does not actively support a particular political view: a parlour socialist.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. parlur ‘place for speaking’, from L. parlare ‘speak’.



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