parlor

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See also: pärlor and parlør

English

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

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parlor (plural parlors)

  1. (dated outside Mid-Atlantic US) The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
  2. (archaic) 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. (archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
  4. (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
  5. A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
    a tattoo parlor
  6. A shed used for milking cattle.
  7. (Philippines) Short for beauty parlor.

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Short for English beauty parlor.

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  • Hyphenation: par‧lor

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parlor

  1. a beauty parlor