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.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Used in or appropriate for a parlor.
Parlor painting.
(figuratively, not-comparable) Advocating something in a secluded place without actual involvement or action.
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.
Meanings
(qualifier: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.
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. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
(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.
(dated) A comfortable room in a public house.
There had been a surprise party and some had entered his hotel parlour to get drink; before he was aware of it the accordion was being played in the room. 1957 July 4, The Nepean Times, Penrith, NSW, page 2, column 2:
Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 135:
(Southern-US) A covered open-air patio.
A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
tattoo parlor pizza parlor ice cream parlor
(Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context. ▸ Ellipsis of beauty parlor.
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