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parlour

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Parlor  \Par"lor\,  n.  [OE.  parlour,  parlur,  F.  parloir,  LL 
  parlatorium  See  {Parley}.]  [Written  also  {parlour}.] 
  A  room  for  business  or  social  conversation,  for  the  reception 
  of  guests,  etc  Specifically: 
  a  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  --Piers  Plowman. 
  b  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. 
  c  Commonly,  in  the  United  States,  a  drawing-room,  or  the 
  room  where  visitors  are  received  and  entertained. 
 
  Note:  ``In  England  people  who  have  a  drawing-room  no  longer 
  call  it  a  parlor,  as  they  called  it  of  old  and  till 
  recently.''  --Fitzed.  Hall. 
 
  {Parlor  car}.  See  {Palace  car},  under  {Car}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  parlour 
  n  1:  a  room  in  an  inn  or  club  where  visitors  can  be  received 
  [syn:  {parlor}] 
  2:  a  room  in  a  private  house  where  people  can  sit  and  talk  and 
  relax  [syn:  {living  room},  {livingroom},  {sitting  room},  {front 
  room},  {parlor}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Parlour 
  (from  the  Fr  parler,  "to  speak")  denotes  an  "audience  chamber," 
  but  that  is  not  the  import  of  the  Hebrew  word  so  rendered.  It 
  corresponds  to  what  the  Turks  call  a  kiosk,  as  in  Judg.  3:20 
  (the  "summer  parlour"),  or  as  in  the  margin  of  the  Revised 
  Version  ("the  upper  chamber  of  cooling"),  a  small  room  built  on 
  the  roof  of  the  house,  with  open  windows  to  catch  the  breeze, 
  and  having  a  door  communicating  with  the  outside  by  which 
  persons  seeking  an  audience  may  be  admitted.  While  Eglon  was 
  resting  in  such  a  parlour,  Ehud,  under  pretence  of  having  a 
  message  from  God  to  him  was  admitted  into  his  presence,  and 
  murderously  plunged  his  dagger  into  his  body  (21,  22). 
 
  The  "inner  parlours"  in  1  Chr.  28:11  were  the  small  rooms  or 
  chambers  which  Solomon  built  all  round  two  sides  and  one  end  of 
  the  temple  (1  Kings  6:5),  "side  chambers;"  or  they  may  have 
  been  as  some  think,  the  porch  and  the  holy  place 
 
  In  1  Sam.  9:22  the  Revised  Version  reads  "guest  chamber,"  a 
  chamber  at  the  high  place  specially  used  for  sacrificial  feasts.




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