Definitions for parlours

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parlours par·lour

Spelling: [pahr-ler]

IPA: /ˈpɑr lər/

Parlours is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in parlours (aloprrsu).

Definitions for parlours

noun

1. Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
2. a room, apartment, or building serving as a place of business for certain businesses or professions:
3. a somewhat private room in a hotel, club, or the like for relaxation, conversation, etc.; lounge.
4. Also called locutorium. a room in a monastery or the like where the inhabitants may converse with visitors or with each other.

adjective

1. advocating something, as a political view or doctrine, at a safe remove from actual involvement in or commitment to action:

noun, adjective

1. parlor.

Origin of parlours

1175-1225; Middle English parlur Anglo-French; Old French parleor, equivalent to parl(er) to speak (see parle) + -eor

Examples for parlours

This done, she went into the parlour on her way to the kitchen.

As soon as I was tolerably composed I returned to the parlour.

Nothing in the world would have induced Ossipon to go into the parlour.

It was the dusting of the furniture in the parlour behind the shop.

But once enticed into the parlour he did not reject the food set before him.

She glanced all round the parlour, from the corner cupboard to the good fire in the grate.

He stood still in the middle of the parlour, and looked into the kitchen in silence.

The Lost PaintingBy Jonathan Harr Not all of us have lost paintings by Caravaggio in our parlour.

I found my mother and sister together in my sister's parlour.

In about ten minutes after my return to the parlour Lady Susan entered the room.