Parlor
['pɑrlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.
Inputed by George--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
(n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
(n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
(n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Drawing-room.
Checker: Marty
Examples
- The Colonel and the Inspector were awaiting us in the parlor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her empty bed, her idle ball, Will never see her more; No gentle tap, no loving purr Is heard at the parlor door. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Amy, who was handed about like refreshments, returned to the parlor on Father Laurence's arm. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- St. Clare carried her in his arms into the parlor, and laid her on the sofa. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now you go into the parlor, and I'll send 'em down to you, with which somewhat involved reply Hannah vanished, chuckling ecstatically. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They were sitting in the little, stuffy parlor when the distant chugging of an approaching automobile caught their attention. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- While this conversation was taking place in the parlor another was going on in St. Clare's library. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A great mistake, Chettam, interposed Mr. Brooke, going into electrifying your land and that kind of thing, and making a parlor of your cow-house. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was glad to learn that our piano, our parlor organ, and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind that could be had in the market. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When they entered the parlor Caleb had thrown down his hat and was seated at his desk. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I got into the house; ran, all out of breath, to the parlor, where I found Butler. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Laurie opened the parlor door and popped his head in very quietly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlor, and he too ordered his shopman to come out of the gangway as my sacred person passed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be sitters-up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How many departed monks were required to upholster these six parlors? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Painter, and in his parlors it was shown to a party of gentlemen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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