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Parlour

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1448, OED Evaluation: NA

In a private house: a sitting room; esp. the main family living room, or the room reserved for entertaining guests (now somewhat arch.). Formerly also: †any room or chamber; a bedroom (obs.).

ExampleMeaning
And they lived in part of the house there, in the parlour, and they just had the parlour, and- and ah, and the little bedroom, that's where they started on the farm.
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests.
ExampleMeaning
And same in the- there was the parlour.
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests.
Speaker: And you put a fairly big block in there. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And that was in the parlour. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: So that pipe would go up there. Interviewer 2: And who s-- who sat in the parlour? Did you have time to sit in the parlour? Speaker: No, we didn't seem to use the parlour.
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests.
ExampleMeaning
And then um- and she was in that room which was the- the- the parlour and then they went to the kitchen and um mom said "Now can you- you sit with Brenda while I'm going to make the doctor a cup of tea" and then when the- the medication had taken affect then he took her off to the hospital.
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I was born over just down the road. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: An-- in the house, in the parlour-
A room in a house normally used to receive or entertain guests.