parlor

• parlour (British)

From Anglo-Norman parlur and Old French parleor, from the verb parler (“to speak”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹləɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)lə(r)

parlor (plural parlors)

1. The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. (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.
3. A room for lounging; a sitting-room; a drawing room.
4. (archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
5. (chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
6. A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
7. A shed used for milking cattle.

• parlor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• parlor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• parlor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Short for English beauty parlor.

• Hyphenation: par‧lor

parlor

1. a beauty parlor