Noun : funeral parlor; beauty parlor. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : parlor leftism; parlor pink. From Dictionary.com.
Above this parlour is a small room, whose low ceiling is supported by beams, which was, in all probability, Madame de Broglie's bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
The parlour is wanscoated and painted a Cedar Coullour. From Wordnik.com. [Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary] Reference
"Awful red!" replied his mother -- "and they call their parlour a saloon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
In one, which I think they call his parlour, is a very antique cupboard; where, it is supposed, he deposited some precious part of his literary treasure. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference
The parlour was the space behind the screen of rags. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Carol] Reference
Then it might as well be called a parlour as by any other name. From Wordnik.com. [Hobson's Choice] Reference
The parlour was a large room, completely furnished in the same style. From Wordnik.com. [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference
She was delighted to hear that the masker who was with me in the parlour was the. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The parlour was a big room, with a Dutch stove, and a screen dividing it into two. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXV. Part III] Reference
In the parlour was a serious-looking gentleman, with a glass of something before him. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Page 98 your health; to muse sometimes with me in the parlour will be a relaxation to your mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
In the parlour was a magnificent bouquet of flowers and card which said, "From the Knights of the Road.". From Wordnik.com. [In the Front Line] Reference
The parlour was a little room with tinted plaster walls shut off from the "back-parlour" by sliding doors. From Wordnik.com. [Vandover and the Brute] Reference
The parlour was the element for Mr. Coleridge, and the politician's lecture, rather than the minister's harangue. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
In the parlour was a young lady about fourteen years old; between whom and the lady I heard the following dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Squirrel, Supposed to be Related by Himself] Reference
During the four and a half years that the hospital was open, I lived in it as what might be called a parlour-boarder. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Hampshire Police are investigating the parlour, which is staffed by Asian "massage" girls in Horton Heath, Southampton. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
In the meanwhile here is a little parlour, which is a joint-stock affair between some of us young hopefuls for the time being. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
The parlour was a tiny room with a mud floor, half-hatch door into the front, and the two bedrooms still tinier and darker, each with two huge beds which filled them entirely. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
Our "parlour" sofa, as usual, is called into requisition. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
I would guess that it is a "parlour" song that has passed into tradition on the strength of the tune more than the words. From Wordnik.com. [My Lagan Love] Reference
At least, it was really a living room in our council flat but I liked the word "parlour" when little so that is what it was called. From Wordnik.com. [My computer dies, my grandmother may have too] Reference
'Have you no place you call a parlour?'. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
"Have you no place you call a parlour?". From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
“Have you no place you call a parlour?”. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
They came from Brubaker's popular drugstore and ice-cream "parlour," two doors below. From Wordnik.com. [Anderson Crow, Detective] Reference
I thought "parlour" a lovely word, and very French, though I supposed it might be American, too. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference
I have servants in plenty to open my door, and the parlour is the proper place for young gentlemen. ". From Wordnik.com. [Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2] Reference
One of the scenes was Highgate, where, in the 'parlour' of a public house, the ceremony was performed. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England] Reference
The Tories hate this kind of parlour game emerging in public when they haven't even won the General Election yet. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
A first reaction to Hobnobgate and the BBC's absurd, nannyish response might be to turn it into a kind of parlour game. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Unfortunately, the only "parlour" that the official was familiar with was the kind where both men and women go for grooming. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
The head-boy, and a kind of parlour-boarder, at Mr. Creakles 'establishment, is one Steerforth, the spoilt only son of a widow. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens] Reference
The genteel one no longer took his evening's pint in Scotland-yard, but drank gin and water at a 'parlour' in Parliament-street. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
The upholstery of the library furniture was a little shabby; but the hostile chairs and sofa of the "parlour" always looked new. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference
In the MS. of the thorax, or, as he calls it, the "parlour" lecture, there are about a hundred references to some twenty authors. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
Indeed, certain of the light-minded youth of Eden Valley called the parlour with the faded red velvet chairs by the name of "Little. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
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