Will you walk into my parlor? said a spider to a fly. From LearnThat.org.
The term parlor generally denotes something other than massage within the industry. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
The Brighams ice cream parlor is now a health food shop … times they are a changing …. From Wordnik.com. [Scripting News for 5/21/2007 « Scripting News Annex] Reference
The word parlor (parlour for Commonwealth readers) derives ultimately from the French parler, to talk. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
The body, what is often referred to as parlor size, is smaller than most contemporary acoustic guitars. From Wordnik.com. [Guitar Fridays: 1921 Martin 00-28] Reference
If a parlor is open later than 11 pm or midnight, you can be reasonably sure that it offers more than just massages. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Cleaned Up!] Reference
That spending a trillion dollars to move the revenues from Social Security into the betting parlor is a way to make it solvent?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » More Condescension Needed] Reference
We were travellin 'in a car they call a parlor, though it didn't look no more like our parlor than ours does like a steeple on a wind-mill. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha at the World's Fair] Reference
Another furnishing of the parlor was the scrutoire. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
The parlor was the space behind the screen of rags. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others] Reference
All about the parlor were the traces of my darling. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Her parlor was the very realization of home comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is] Reference
The parlor was a masked sleeping chamber and store room. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
I should have thought the parlor was the place for a lady. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman] Reference
For a time, it appears, it was a pool parlor, which is cool. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Days for Red Sauce Joints] Reference
Behind the parlor is a dark little bedroom, and then the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pie] Reference
The parlor was the room in which they assembled on these occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Jack 1877] Reference
In the parlor was the wonderful piano, brought all the way from Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
In the back of the parlor was a window opening into a narrow air-shaft. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
The pizza parlor is run by the same guy who tends bar on Grey’s Anatomy. From Wordnik.com. [Falling feels like flying, for a little while : Bev Vincent] Reference
The parlor was a stiff room with stiff furniture and stiff family portraits. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Just then we get to the new Poker parlor, which is a very different game indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Lurio: Obama Maintains a Poker Face As McCain Loses His Touch] Reference
The parlor was a big room, with a Dutch stove, and a screen dividing it into two. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
We also found a Coldstone ice cream parlor, which is our favorite ice cream place. From Wordnik.com. [Read It!] Reference
I did and in the parlor was the biggest kind of an ox standing there chewing his quid. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
The parlor was a long low room that continued the line of the house to its southern end. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Sisters] Reference
Adjoining the parlor was the dining-room, with its oaken walls, and cane-colored floor-cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. From Wordnik.com. [Blix] Reference
However, I don’t know whether or not the esthetic and massage parlor is of the seedy variety. From Wordnik.com. [What not to do at your Christmas party!] Reference
My mother's funeral was held at home in the front room which was called the parlor in those days. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
On the other side of the parlor was another bedroom, also with two beds in it, for Mr. George and. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Holland] Reference
Higgins 'vision for the parlor is to be a place were teens can hang out after the game or school. From Wordnik.com. [Payson Roundup stories] Reference
So I carried my cupcakes a few blocks down to the OTB parlor, which is a clean, well-lighted place. From Wordnik.com. [b5masterfeed] Reference
A: The front room, also known as a parlor or living room, is often not practical in today's family. From Wordnik.com. [Berks county news] Reference
But his "parlor" has to be run on a strict cash basis. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
WILLIAMS: It looked like a kind of parlor game, you know. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003] Reference
And who, by the way, found it noteworthy that a bluesman had "lace curtains" and a "parlor"?. From Wordnik.com. [It’s a White Thing] Reference
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