Parlour
noun
A room in a house used for relaxation and entertainment.
She invited her guests into the parlour to have tea and converse.
Often appears as...
- parlour room
- parlour suite
noun
A business that provides specific services.
She booked an appointment at the beauty parlour.
Often appears as...
- beauty parlour
- ice cream parlour
noun
A room where guests are received and entertained.
The guests were shown into the parlour after taking their coats.
Often appears as...
- parlour maid
- parlour room
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Formal
noun
A room in a house used for relaxation and entertainment.
She invited her guests into the parlour to have tea and converse.
Often appears as...
- parlour room
- parlour suite
noun
A business that provides specific services.
She booked an appointment at the beauty parlour.
Often appears as...
- beauty parlour
- ice cream parlour
noun
A room where guests are received and entertained.
The guests were shown into the parlour after taking their coats.
Often appears as...
- parlour maid
- parlour room
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Elegance
Originally indicated a grand and formal space for hosting, linked to a luxurious lifestyle.
The manor's parlour remains a testament to its historical grandeur.
Pro Tip 2/3Antique Charm
In modern homes, a parlour may be a cozy, nostalgic area reminiscent of past eras.
Their Victorian home features a charming parlour with original furniture.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Commonplace
The term 'parlour' is less common today and might not be used in everyday language to describe a living room.
My grandmother calls her living room the parlour, but we just call it the living room.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Elegance
Originally indicated a grand and formal space for hosting, linked to a luxurious lifestyle.
The manor's parlour remains a testament to its historical grandeur.
Pro Tip 2/3Antique Charm
In modern homes, a parlour may be a cozy, nostalgic area reminiscent of past eras.
Their Victorian home features a charming parlour with original furniture.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Commonplace
The term 'parlour' is less common today and might not be used in everyday language to describe a living room.
My grandmother calls her living room the parlour, but we just call it the living room.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Elegance
Originally indicated a grand and formal space for hosting, linked to a luxurious lifestyle.
The manor's parlour remains a testament to its historical grandeur.
Pro Tip 2/3Antique Charm
In modern homes, a parlour may be a cozy, nostalgic area reminiscent of past eras.
Their Victorian home features a charming parlour with original furniture.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Commonplace
The term 'parlour' is less common today and might not be used in everyday language to describe a living room.
My grandmother calls her living room the parlour, but we just call it the living room.
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A Skeptic’s Guide to...
the producers completely dismissed rodrigo they told him and his mom look this isn't some kind of parlor game and we're just not interested so rodrigo's mom threw down the gauntlet and my mom said well ask the kid a question if you think that he doesn't know so they pulled a book and they started asking questions about mammals
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Double the Lion Prides –...
of you could help us with had info I really appreciate that and what happened was the lioness got up and started stalking we weren't sure what because it was very thick vegetation like this and we heard the ambush kind of take place and we heard hooves and bushes breaking and all of a sudden and parlour and
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Jeff Smith: Lessons in...
There's pretty illegal You run a tattoo parlor out of your own cell. And there's very illegal hustles, which you smuggle in, you get smuggled in, drugs, pornography, cell phones, and just as in the outer world, there's a risk-reward tradeoff, so the riskier the enterprise,
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Safari Live - Day 210 PIPE...
just the right temperature the cold front left us earlier today and was replaced by clear skies and lovely spring ish temperatures should we say in parlor you can see are deeply appreciative of the fact that the foul Ness of the last few days have
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Safari Live - Day 356 PIPE...
depends on which side I'm lying which nostril I happen to find more blocked than the other you're a bird of prey calling otherwise absolute silence very comfortable looking in parlor I know when you get sick and you are you suddenly realized
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How the bendy straw was...
Seated on the parlor stool, she is unable to reach the mouth of the striped paper straw protruding from her shake. Joseph, in a moment of vision, modifies Judith's straw. He inserts a screw into one end, and using a piece of dental floss,
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Photographer’s Journey...
who would go to different parts of the world and send back specimens for people. This is pre-television, pre-film, pre-magazines. So, people would have, you know, cassowaries stuffed in their parlor that they could talk about.
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
the beautiful sunset which is just in the distance so standing here like I said everybody's going to be coming out into the open and that's exactly what the pot empire are doing I forget then it's not two Impala and one parlor
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Burying Beetles PIPE...
it's way cool like the maggots we couldn't help ourselves back to the burying beetles it's almost time for the last gross moment the beetles prepare their home part coroner slab part morticians parlor for a daunting home
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
friends oh yes I'm in parlor let's stop and give them a little bit of consideration given that I haven't shown you any animals for some time hello you definitely wouldn't be looking quite as cheerful as you are if you'd
Video examples
A Skeptic’s Guide to...
the producers completely dismissed rodrigo they told him and his mom look this isn't some kind of parlor game and we're just not interested so rodrigo's mom threw down the gauntlet and my mom said well ask the kid a question if you think that he doesn't know so they pulled a book and they started asking questions about mammals
Video examples
Double the Lion Prides –...
of you could help us with had info I really appreciate that and what happened was the lioness got up and started stalking we weren't sure what because it was very thick vegetation like this and we heard the ambush kind of take place and we heard hooves and bushes breaking and all of a sudden and parlour and
Video examples
Jeff Smith: Lessons in...
There's pretty illegal You run a tattoo parlor out of your own cell. And there's very illegal hustles, which you smuggle in, you get smuggled in, drugs, pornography, cell phones, and just as in the outer world, there's a risk-reward tradeoff, so the riskier the enterprise,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 210 PIPE...
just the right temperature the cold front left us earlier today and was replaced by clear skies and lovely spring ish temperatures should we say in parlor you can see are deeply appreciative of the fact that the foul Ness of the last few days have
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 356 PIPE...
depends on which side I'm lying which nostril I happen to find more blocked than the other you're a bird of prey calling otherwise absolute silence very comfortable looking in parlor I know when you get sick and you are you suddenly realized
Video examples
How the bendy straw was...
Seated on the parlor stool, she is unable to reach the mouth of the striped paper straw protruding from her shake. Joseph, in a moment of vision, modifies Judith's straw. He inserts a screw into one end, and using a piece of dental floss,
Video examples
Photographer’s Journey...
who would go to different parts of the world and send back specimens for people. This is pre-television, pre-film, pre-magazines. So, people would have, you know, cassowaries stuffed in their parlor that they could talk about.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
the beautiful sunset which is just in the distance so standing here like I said everybody's going to be coming out into the open and that's exactly what the pot empire are doing I forget then it's not two Impala and one parlor
Video examples
Burying Beetles PIPE...
it's way cool like the maggots we couldn't help ourselves back to the burying beetles it's almost time for the last gross moment the beetles prepare their home part coroner slab part morticians parlor for a daunting home
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
friends oh yes I'm in parlor let's stop and give them a little bit of consideration given that I haven't shown you any animals for some time hello you definitely wouldn't be looking quite as cheerful as you are if you'd
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Quote examples
Gail Collins
American Journalist
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian Model
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
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Djuna Barnes
American Novelist
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
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Jean Pigozzi
French Businessman
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.
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Anne Rice
American Novelist
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
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Erica Fernandes
Indian Actress
I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.
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A. N. Wilson
English Writer
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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Snoop Dogg
American Rapper
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
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Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
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Emily Mortimer
British Actress
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
Quote examples
Gail Collins
American Journalist
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
Quote examples
Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian Model
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
Quote examples
Djuna Barnes
American Novelist
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
Quote examples
Jean Pigozzi
French Businessman
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.
Quote examples
Anne Rice
American Novelist
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Quote examples
Erica Fernandes
Indian Actress
I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.
Quote examples
A. N. Wilson
English Writer
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
Quote examples
Snoop Dogg
American Rapper
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
Quote examples
Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
Quote examples
Emily Mortimer
British Actress
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
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