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parlour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈpaːlɔː/ (Nigeria)
• /ˈpɑːlə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpɑɹlɚ/ (General-American)

Meanings

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor.
   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
   • Will you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; / 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy. 1829, Mary Howitt, The Spider and the Fly, published 1853:

Forms

Deriveds

bar parlour · parlourless · parlourmaid · parlour pink