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parlour

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun parlour has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

parlourn. 
  •  Same as parlor.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parlour, n. (US parlor)
1 a sitting-room in a private house.
2 a room in a hotel, convent, etc., for the private use of residents.
3 esp. US a shop providing specified goods or services (beauty parlour; ice-cream parlour).
4 a room or building equipped for milking cows.
5 (attrib.) derog. denoting support for political views by those who do not try to practise them (parlour socialist).

Idiom
parlour game an indoor game, esp. a word game. parlour-maid hist. a maid who waits at table.
Etymology
ME f. AF parlur, OF parleor, parleur: see PARLANCE
Also see definition of "parlour" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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