单词 | parlour |
释义 | parlour n. (US parlor)   1. a sitting-room in a private house.   2. a room in a hotel, convent, etc., for the private use of residents.   3. esp. US a shop providing specified goods or services (beauty parlour; ice-cream parlour).   4. a room or building equipped for milking cows.   5. (attrib.) derog. denoting support for political views by those who do not try to practise them (parlour socialist). Phrases and idioms parlour game an indoor game, esp. a word game. parlour-maid hist. a maid who waits at table. Etymology: ME f. AF parlur, OF parleor, parleur: see PARLANCE |
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