parlor
/ˈpɑɹlɚ/ noun B2- The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
- A comfortable room in a public house.
- A covered open-air patio.
- A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context. · tattoo parlor pizza parlor ice cream parlor
- A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.
Plural parlors
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The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut, and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece.
He preferred to use the sitting-room upstairs, which was more library than parlor, and was furnished with theological books and parchments, in which he delighted to bury himself for months at a time, according to his valet de chambre.
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.
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