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/ˈpɑːlə/ · noun
(dated outside Mid-Atlantic US) The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room..
So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.
There had been a surprise party and some had entered his hotel parlour to get drink; before he was aware of it the accordion was being played in the room.
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Use parlor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Parlor means (dated outside Mid-Atlantic US) The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room..
Common synonyms include living room, sitting room, drawing room, lounge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
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