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• a sitting room in a private house.

• "they had lunch in the parlour"

Similar: sitting room, living room, lounge, front room, best room, drawing room, morning room, salon, reception room,

• a room in a public building for receiving guests.

• "the mayor's parlour"

• a shop or business providing specified goods or services.

• "an ice-cream parlour"

Similar: salon, shop, establishment, store,

• a room or building equipped for milking cows.

• denoting a person who professes belief in but does not actively support a specified (especially radical) political view.

• "urban intellectuals and parlour revolutionaries"

Origin: Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French parlur ‘place for speaking’, from Latin parlare ‘speak’.