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bar parlour en · NOUN

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1. A small, often cozier, section within a larger pub or inn, distinct from the main bar area.
   • I was feeling wilted and dry after some hours in the driving cab with the sun on it. I suggested that we might remove discussion from the middle of the street to some more congenial spot. We passed round their trucks through a familiar litter of cases of biscuits, chests of tea, sides of bacon, sacks of sugar, blocks of salt, and all the rest of it to a small bar-parlour next door. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 192:

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