parlour
pronunciation
How to pronounce parlour in British English:
UK ['pɑ:lə(r)]
How to pronounce parlour in American English:
US [ˈpɑrlɚ]
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- Noun:
- reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
- a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
Word Origin
- parlour
- chiefly British English spelling of parlor (q.v.).
Example
- 1. And hymns in the cosy parlour , the tinkling piano our guide .
- 2. The original parlour wallpaper has been copied in the same cosy warm red tones .
- 3. A tiff in the library leads to the ice-cream parlour and , inevitably , love over the scoops . His background is old money .
- 4. Only affluence afforded such spaciousness and so the separate parlour in which callers applied for admission into the bosom of the family was itself a status symbol .
- 5. He spread his $ 18 on the parlour table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands .