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plural parlors
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room quotations examples
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.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
(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.
(archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
(chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio. examples
A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context. examples
A shed used for milking cattle. examples
(Philippines) Short for beauty parlor. examples